Dearl
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Dearl has been given to 792 babies in the U.S. since 1917. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1933, with 24 recorded.
Babies named Dearl, 1989
1 in 549,000
Dearl over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Dearl?
Dearl had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1989, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1989
- 1 in 549,000
- 7 of 3,842,268 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 286,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1989
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 380,466 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Dearl sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1989 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 380,466 children born in 1989 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dearl. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Dearls were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Dearl was born before 1947 — so the typical Dearl is around 78 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1930s
- 22.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 18.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 347
- People you could plausibly meet
1930s — 22.2% of all recorded uses (176).
Is Dearl rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1933 (24)
- Years since peak
- 92
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 18.2% average annual change
Spellings of Dearl
Dearl is not the most common spelling — Carl is, with 39.5% against Dearl's 0.06%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Dearl is used
Across 1910–2025, Dearl was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,009,014 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Dearl has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Dearl by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Dearl
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Dearl
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.