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Mescal
How to Pronounce Mescal
Pronounced mes-KAL /mɛsˈkæl/Medium
Meaning: Mescal is a word name from mescal, the agave plant of the American Southwest and Mexico, whose name comes from the Nahuatl mexcalli through Spanish. As a given name it draws on that Southwestern plant word.Low
Popularity in the U.S. · SSA data
U.S. births per year (Social Security Administration, 1880–present). Pink marker = peak year.
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History & Origin
Mescal is a word name drawn from mescal, the agave plant of the Southwest and Mexico, whose name traces through Spanish to the Nahuatl mexcalli. As a girl's name it appears in United States birth records in the early twentieth century, evoking Southwestern landscape and plant names, and reached its modest high around 1924. It was never common, given to only a couple dozen girls a year.
A girl named Mescal then would be a great-grandmother now. The name reads as an evocative regional word name of its era. It has not revived, and its plant-and-place origin sets it among the honestly traced but modest-confidence names.
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What does the name Mescal mean?
It is a word name from mescal, the agave plant, from the Nahuatl mexcalli through Spanish.
How do you pronounce Mescal?
It's said mes-KAL /mɛsˈkæl/, two syllables, stress on the second.
Is Mescal a boy or girl name?
Mescal is used as a girl's name.
How popular is Mescal?
It has always been very rare, a word name given to only a couple dozen girls a year around the nineteen-twenties.