Merald
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Merald has been given to 39 babies in the U.S. since 1915. 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 1937, with 7 recorded.
Babies named Merald, 1975
1 in 604,000
Merald 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Merald?
Merald had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1975, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1975
- 1 in 604,000
- 5 of 3,019,126 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 312,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1975
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 418,541 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Merald sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1975 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 418,541 children born in 1975 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Merald. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Meralds were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Merald was born before 1923 — so the typical Merald is around 102 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 30.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 12.8%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 5
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 30.8% of all recorded uses (12).
Is Merald 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 1937 (7)
- Years since peak
- 88
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Very steady
- 0% average annual change
Spellings of Merald
Merald is not the most common spelling — Gerald is, with 75.5% against Merald'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.
Merald around the world
Where Merald 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.
- South Australia1945–1945#340in 1945
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Merald by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Merald
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Merald
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.