Meaning not yet researched.
Meryl: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 12 in 2025. Its best rank was #751 in 1952.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #751 in 1952; #8,689 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Meryl in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,689 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1952, at #751.
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Meryl: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 12 girls in 2025. Peak: #751 in 1952 · most girls in one year: 156 (1956).
In 2025, 12 US girls were named Meryl, making it the 8,689th most common girls’ name of the year, down 3,135 places from #5,554 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 23 girls named Meryl in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #751, reached in 1952. The most girls given the name in a single year was 156, in 1956. For comparison, it was #3,290 in 2015 and #780 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Meryl in 128 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1892 with 6 babies. In all, 5,599 US babies have been given the name, 92% of them girls and 7.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 1,327 babies named Meryl.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 207 US girls were named Meryl; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 30. In 2025 that was about 1 in 133,939 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Mirel, Miral and Meryle are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Mirel (707), Miral (504), Meryle (429), Merel (240), Meral (228), Myrel (188), Myril (17).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Meryl in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,689 | — | — |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,554 | — | — |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,098 | — | — |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,188 | — | — |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,884 | — | — |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,602 | — | — |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,735 | — | — |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,278 | — | — |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,213 | — | — |
| 2016 | 30 | #4,702 | — | — |
| 2015 | 50 | #3,290 | — | — |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,858 | — | — |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,930 | — | — |
| 2012 | 34 | #4,355 | — | — |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,322 | — | — |
| 2010 | 18 | #7,123 | — | — |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,333 | — | — |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,636 | — | — |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,254 | — | — |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,492 | — | — |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,205 | — | — |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,700 | — | — |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,544 | — | — |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,827 | — | — |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,155 | — | — |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,863 | — | — |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,683 | — | — |
| 1998 | 31 | #3,797 | — | — |
| 1997 | 25 | #4,329 | — | — |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,145 | — | — |
| 1995 | 33 | #3,401 | — | — |
| 1994 | 39 | #3,021 | — | — |
| 1993 | 33 | #3,392 | — | — |
| 1992 | 45 | #2,714 | — | — |
| 1991 | 30 | #3,604 | — | — |
| 1990 | 49 | #2,478 | — | — |
| 1989 | 59 | #2,112 | — | — |
| 1988 | 68 | #1,832 | — | — |
| 1987 | 65 | #1,805 | — | — |
| 1986 | 79 | #1,551 | — | — |
| 1985 | 72 | #1,644 | — | — |
| 1984 | 71 | #1,590 | — | — |
| 1983 | 72 | #1,561 | — | — |
| 1982 | 68 | #1,679 | — | — |
| 1981 | 46 | #2,217 | — | — |
| 1980 | 63 | #1,755 | — | — |
| 1979 | 24 | #3,407 | — | — |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,426 | — | — |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,093 | — | — |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,902 | — | — |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,500 | — | — |
| 1974 | 18 | #3,650 | — | — |
| 1973 | 21 | #3,191 | — | — |
| 1972 | 31 | #2,382 | — | — |
| 1971 | 21 | #3,229 | — | — |
| 1970 | 34 | #2,292 | — | — |
| 1969 | 46 | #1,826 | — | — |
| 1968 | 37 | #1,989 | — | — |
| 1967 | 34 | #2,029 | 5 | #4,353 |
| 1966 | 45 | #1,688 | — | — |
| 1965 | 51 | #1,567 | — | — |
| 1964 | 65 | #1,398 | 5 | #4,429 |
| 1963 | 78 | #1,246 | — | — |
| 1962 | 76 | #1,272 | — | — |
| 1961 | 79 | #1,248 | 5 | #4,456 |
| 1960 | 100 | #1,079 | — | — |
| 1959 | 108 | #1,020 | — | — |
| 1958 | 94 | #1,087 | — | — |
| 1957 | 141 | #856 | 9 | #2,957 |
| 1956 | 156 | #795 | — | — |
| 1955 | 125 | #870 | 9 | #2,907 |
| 1954 | 143 | #785 | — | — |
| 1953 | 132 | #802 | 7 | #3,322 |
| 1952 | 141 | #751 | 5 | #4,099 |
| 1951 | 119 | #823 | 8 | #2,989 |
| 1950 | 124 | #780 | 6 | #3,570 |
| 1949 | 125 | #773 | 5 | #4,048 |
| 1948 | 112 | #827 | 7 | #3,212 |
| 1947 | 97 | #903 | 11 | #2,463 |
| 1946 | 70 | #1,011 | 13 | #2,110 |
| 1945 | 69 | #912 | 6 | #3,209 |
| 1944 | 45 | #1,183 | 9 | #2,576 |
| 1943 | 31 | #1,515 | 13 | #2,143 |
| 1942 | 33 | #1,430 | 5 | #3,900 |
| 1941 | 30 | #1,438 | 14 | #1,970 |
| 1940 | 15 | #2,180 | — | — |
| 1939 | 31 | #1,341 | 6 | #3,360 |
| 1938 | 25 | #1,535 | 9 | #2,592 |
| 1937 | 16 | #2,068 | 5 | #3,858 |
| 1936 | 37 | #1,178 | 9 | #2,564 |
| 1935 | 25 | #1,502 | 7 | #3,157 |
| 1934 | 22 | #1,636 | 10 | #2,509 |
| 1933 | 28 | #1,390 | 13 | #2,060 |
| 1932 | 29 | #1,416 | 10 | #2,575 |
| 1931 | 40 | #1,143 | 16 | #1,900 |
| 1930 | 37 | #1,244 | 12 | #2,403 |
| 1929 | 30 | #1,411 | 9 | #2,900 |
| 1928 | 41 | #1,199 | 8 | #3,270 |
| 1927 | 25 | #1,711 | 14 | #2,256 |
| 1926 | 36 | #1,321 | 7 | #3,610 |
| 1925 | 35 | #1,366 | 17 | #1,985 |
| 1924 | 36 | #1,376 | 13 | #2,433 |
| 1923 | 37 | #1,296 | 17 | #1,998 |
| 1922 | 22 | #1,874 | 15 | #2,204 |
| 1921 | 21 | #1,965 | 18 | #1,958 |
| 1920 | 32 | #1,432 | 13 | #2,413 |
| 1919 | 18 | #2,035 | 15 | #2,119 |
| 1918 | 29 | #1,484 | 11 | #2,649 |
| 1917 | 29 | #1,394 | 9 | #2,880 |
| 1916 | 22 | #1,664 | 12 | #2,353 |
| 1915 | 19 | #1,772 | 10 | #2,562 |
| 1914 | 16 | #1,709 | — | — |
| 1913 | 18 | #1,389 | — | — |
| 1912 | 21 | #1,167 | 5 | #2,788 |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,901 | — | — |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,884 | — | — |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,426 | — | — |
| 1908 | 9 | #1,509 | — | — |
| 1906 | 8 | #1,513 | — | — |
| 1905 | 8 | #1,498 | — | — |
| 1903 | 7 | #1,530 | — | — |
| 1902 | 7 | #1,543 | — | — |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,866 | — | — |
| 1898 | 9 | #1,235 | — | — |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,496 | — | — |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,748 | — | — |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,585 | — | — |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,400 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).