Given name & surname
Mescal
“descendant of Meisceall”
Mescal is a feminine given name, possibly from Irish and perhaps meaning “descendant of Meisceall.”
Meaning & origin
How it developed
Possibly from Irish Ó Meiscill (“descendant of Meisceall”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1914. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mescal through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 179
- 0 boys · 179 girls
- Most popular year
- 1924
- 22 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 1948. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 22 in 1924. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 148 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
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