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Meral

#7,031 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Maral

Meral has been given to 228 babies in the U.S. since 1985. In 2025 it ranked #7,031 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 24 recorded.

Babies named Meral, 2025

1 in 207,000

Meral over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Meral: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Maral

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Meral means

Meral is a form of Maral.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Meral → Maral. The family’s meaning is “deer”, recorded in the naming reference for Maral.

Origin, language, and formation

Meral is used in Turkish.

Meral comes through Ottoman Turkish مرال and Middle Mongol 馬闌勒.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Maral.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 228 girls were recorded with the name Meral between 1985 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 24 in 2018; its best national rank was #5,406 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,446 in 2020 to #7,031 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,774 in 2015 to #7,031 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Meral?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,031
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Meral sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Meral. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Merals were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Meral was born before 2017 — so the typical Meral is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
62.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
228
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 62.3% of all recorded uses (142).

Is Meral 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
+3,782
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+415
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,743
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.23×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
66.7%
Peak was 2018 (24)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,406
2018

Spellings of Meral

Meral is not the most common spelling — Megan is, with 51.3% against Meral's 0.03%.

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 Meral is used

Across 1910–2025, Meral was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,501,280 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Meral has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Meral around the world

Where Meral ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2025
    #2,605
    in 2025
  • France
    1974–2025
    #4,334
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2011–2022
    #2,896
    in 2022

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Meral by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,031
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 415
Best rank ever
#5,406
2018
Peak year
2018
24 that year
First recorded
1985
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
228
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Meral

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Meral

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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