Murl
Murl is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 788th, in 1898.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191965 births
- Best rank
- #788in 1898
- Since 1886
- 2,567people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,941 boys have been named Murl in the United States since 1886, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1919, with 65 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 65 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1929, and the 1920s alone account for 26%. It has spent 21 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Murl is used for both sexes: 24% of its bearers are girls (626), most of them born around 1918.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Murl | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | |
| 1890s | 40 | |
| 1900s | 68 | |
| 1910s | 365 | |
| 1920s | 511 | |
| 1930s | 362 | |
| 1940s | 266 | |
| 1950s | 185 | |
| 1960s | 94 | |
| 1970s | 34 | |
| 1980s | 11 |
In 1919, its biggest year
Murl was the 816th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1919 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1919.
Names that rose and fell with Murl
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Clovispeak 1917
- Cecilpeak 1920
- Loydpeak 1926
- Hubertpeak 1924
- Virglepeak 1924
- Clairpeak 1923
- Mayopeak 1915
- Haroldpeak 1924
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.