Mursal
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Mursal has been given to 67 babies in the U.S. since 1993. 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 2001, with 8 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 75% girls, 25% boys all-time.
Babies named Mursal, 2024
1 in 478,000
Mursal 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Mursal over time
In 2024, Mursal 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 Mursal?
Mursal had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 478,000
- 7 of 3,342,801 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 231,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 331,009 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Mursal sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mursal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Mursals were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Mursal was born before 2001 — so the typical Mursal is around 24 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 36.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 78.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 50
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 36.0% of all recorded uses (18).
Is Mursal 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 2001 (8)
- Years since peak
- 24
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.3% average annual change
Spellings of Mursal
Mursal is not the most common spelling — Muriel is, with 97.9% against Mursal's 0.09%.
Where Mursal is used
Across 1910–2025, Mursal was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,601,278 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 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. Mursal has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Mursal around the world
Where Mursal 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 & Wales2001–2022#4,646in 2022
- Canada1996–2013#2,555in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Mursal by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Mursal
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Mursal
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.