Meryle
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Meryle has been given to 429 babies in the U.S. since 1907. 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 1924, with 18 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 93% girls, 7% boys all-time.
Babies named Meryle, 1963
1 in 565,000
Meryle 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Meryle over time
In 1963, Meryle went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Meryle?
Meryle had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1963, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1963
- 1 in 565,000
- 7 of 3,958,455 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 275,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1963
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 391,971 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Meryle sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1963 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 391,971 children born in 1963 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Meryle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Meryles were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Meryle was born before 1932 — so the typical Meryle is around 93 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 24.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 42.8%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 79
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 24.7% of all recorded uses (98).
Is Meryle 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 1924 (18)
- Years since peak
- 101
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 43.0% average annual change
Spellings of Meryle
Meryle is not the most common spelling — Myrtle is, with 70.7% against Meryle's 0.21%.
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 Meryle is used
Across 1910–2025, Meryle was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,022,821 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 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. Meryle has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Meryle around the world
Where Meryle 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.
- France1986–2024#5,061in 2024
- South Australia1944–1963#644in 1963
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Meryle by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Meryle
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Meryle
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.