Gearl
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Gearl has been given to 300 babies in the U.S. since 1919. 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 1942, with 15 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 79% boys, 21% girls all-time.
Babies named Gearl, 1965
1 in 725,000
Gearl 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Gearl over time
In 1965, Gearl went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Gearl?
Gearl had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1965, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1965
- 1 in 725,000
- 5 of 3,625,243 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 372,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1965
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 502,567 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Gearl sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1965 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 502,567 children born in 1965 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gearl. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Gearls were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Gearl was born before 1939 — so the typical Gearl is around 86 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1940s
- 31.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 44.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 39
- People you could plausibly meet
1940s — 31.4% of all recorded uses (74).
Is Gearl 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1942 (15)
- Years since peak
- 83
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.0% average annual change
Spellings of Gearl
Gearl is not the most common spelling — Gary is, with 44.3% against Gearl's 0.01%.
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.
Gearl by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Gearl
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Gearl
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.