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Murielle

Girls' name

Sea, through Muriel

Murielle has been given to 327 babies in the U.S. since 1919. 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 1927, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Murielle, 2022

1 in 484,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Murielle: meaning, origin, and history

Sea, through Muriel

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Murielle means

Murielle belongs to the name family reached through Murielle → Muriel. Its meaning is “sea”.

Origin, language, and formation

Murielle is used in French.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Muriel.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Murielle is pronounced /my.ʁjɛl/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 327 girls were recorded with the name Murielle between 1919 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 15 in 1927; its best national rank was #2,404 in 1927.

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 Murielle?

Murielle had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 484,000
7 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 234,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
335,262 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Murielle 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 2022 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 335,262 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Murielle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Murielles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Murielle was born before 1939 — so the typical Murielle is around 86 today.

Median birth year
1939
About 86 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
29.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
21.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
145
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1920s — 29.4% of all recorded uses (96).

Is Murielle 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1927 (15)
Years since peak
98
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,404
1927

Spellings of Murielle

Murielle is not the most common spelling — Muriel is, with 32.1% against Murielle's 0.19%.

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 Murielle is used

Across 1910–2025, Murielle was most concentrated in Maine — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 322,210 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maine1 in 20,000
  2. 2New 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. Murielle has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Murielle around the world

Where Murielle 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.

  • France
    1920–2025
    #6,709
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Murielle by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,404
1927
Peak year
1927
15 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
327
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Murielle

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

MurphieLucielleAzrielleZarielleKyrielleAvrielleLaurelleLorielleMurrayKarielleYsabelleAribelleMirielleAvanelleGianelleZurielleNorielleAnnaelleMarcilleKhamilleMurpheeAudrielleMurlineAbigaelle

Sibling names for Murielle

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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