Mearle**

#15,148 most common boys' name of all time · #39,298 across all names · 76% male / 24% female · used 1915–1948 · genuinely unisex

Rank among boys

#15,148

Rank overall

#39,298 of 105,966

First appeared

1915

Years on the list

14 of 146

All-time

108

Since 2016

Peak year

1917 #3,798

Best rank

#3,067 1919

Girls Boys peak 14/yr

Mearle first appears in 1915. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

Year	Girls	Boys	Total	Rank
1948	—	6	6	#3,502
1936	—	5	5	#3,840
1935	—	5	5	#3,913
1927	—	5	5	#4,477
1925	—	9	9	#3,108
1924	—	9	9	#3,196
1923	8	—	8	—
1922	—	5	5	#4,565
1921	—	6	6	#4,094
1920	—	5	5	#4,596
1919	—	9	9	#3,067
1918	5	7	12	#3,606
1917	8	6	14	#3,798
1915	5	5	10	#4,123