Meaning not yet researched.
Muriel: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 32 in 2025. Its best rank was #112 in 1922.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #112 in 1922; #4,430 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Muriel in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,430 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1922, at #112.
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Muriel: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 32 girls in 2025. Peak: #112 in 1922 · most girls in one year: 2,392 (1922).
In 2025, 32 US girls were named Muriel, making it the 4,430th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,220 places from #3,210 in 2024. That is 18 fewer than the 50 girls named Muriel in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #112, reached in 1922. That year also had the most girls given the name: 2,392. For comparison, it was #4,943 in 2015 and #445 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Muriel in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 7 babies with the name. In all, 55,646 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 1.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 20,749 babies named Muriel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 256 US girls were named Muriel; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 50. In 2025 that was about 1 in 50,227 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Murrell, Murrel and Murel are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Mur.
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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Murrell (1,288), Murrel (925), Murel (710), Murriel (633), Murielle (327), Murial (207), Muril (43), Murell (16), Murael (11), Murrill (10), Moriel (6), Morrel (5), and more.
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.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #4,430 | — | — |
| 2024 | 50 | #3,210 | — | — |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,956 | — | — |
| 2022 | 22 | #5,753 | — | — |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,334 | — | — |
| 2020 | 20 | #6,014 | — | — |
| 2019 | 20 | #6,117 | — | — |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,436 | — | — |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,144 | — | — |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,124 | — | — |
| 2015 | 28 | #4,943 | — | — |
| 2014 | 30 | #4,735 | — | — |
| 2013 | 15 | #8,045 | — | — |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,694 | — | — |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,277 | — | — |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,117 | — | — |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,738 | — | — |
| 2008 | 31 | #4,842 | — | — |
| 2007 | 30 | #4,904 | — | — |
| 2006 | 33 | #4,432 | — | — |
| 2005 | 27 | #4,918 | — | — |
| 2004 | 27 | #4,906 | — | — |
| 2003 | 30 | #4,387 | — | — |
| 2002 | 38 | #3,568 | — | — |
| 2001 | 30 | #4,169 | — | — |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,953 | — | — |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,826 | — | — |
| 1998 | 41 | #3,098 | — | — |
| 1997 | 34 | #3,421 | — | — |
| 1996 | 45 | #2,743 | — | — |
| 1995 | 37 | #3,139 | — | — |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,337 | — | — |
| 1993 | 43 | #2,806 | — | — |
| 1992 | 34 | #3,325 | — | — |
| 1991 | 42 | #2,825 | — | — |
| 1990 | 37 | #3,056 | — | — |
| 1989 | 47 | #2,468 | — | — |
| 1988 | 37 | #2,845 | — | — |
| 1987 | 48 | #2,258 | — | — |
| 1986 | 59 | #1,904 | — | — |
| 1985 | 38 | #2,578 | — | — |
| 1984 | 36 | #2,607 | — | — |
| 1983 | 40 | #2,387 | — | — |
| 1982 | 43 | #2,313 | — | — |
| 1981 | 34 | #2,701 | — | — |
| 1980 | 51 | #2,057 | — | — |
| 1979 | 30 | #2,902 | — | — |
| 1978 | 50 | #1,952 | — | — |
| 1977 | 39 | #2,326 | — | — |
| 1976 | 27 | #2,840 | — | — |
| 1975 | 55 | #1,723 | — | — |
| 1974 | 41 | #2,050 | — | — |
| 1973 | 53 | #1,699 | — | — |
| 1972 | 46 | #1,849 | — | — |
| 1971 | 81 | #1,331 | — | — |
| 1970 | 76 | #1,381 | — | — |
| 1969 | 67 | #1,433 | — | — |
| 1968 | 82 | #1,204 | — | — |
| 1967 | 84 | #1,163 | — | — |
| 1966 | 105 | #1,008 | 5 | #4,343 |
| 1965 | 108 | #1,007 | — | — |
| 1964 | 141 | #875 | — | — |
| 1963 | 175 | #786 | — | — |
| 1962 | 163 | #822 | — | — |
| 1961 | 172 | #797 | 7 | #3,568 |
| 1960 | 168 | #792 | — | — |
| 1959 | 163 | #801 | 5 | #4,384 |
| 1958 | 169 | #773 | — | — |
| 1957 | 216 | #668 | — | — |
| 1956 | 219 | #644 | 8 | #3,122 |
| 1955 | 245 | #587 | 6 | #3,764 |
| 1954 | 267 | #545 | 6 | #3,704 |
| 1953 | 309 | #496 | 10 | #2,660 |
| 1952 | 319 | #473 | — | — |
| 1951 | 334 | #454 | 13 | #2,214 |
| 1950 | 330 | #445 | 8 | #2,951 |
| 1949 | 402 | #397 | 15 | #2,001 |
| 1948 | 386 | #405 | 10 | #2,563 |
| 1947 | 448 | #378 | 13 | #2,223 |
| 1946 | 399 | #382 | 9 | #2,645 |
| 1945 | 390 | #349 | 6 | #3,215 |
| 1944 | 472 | #310 | 8 | #2,789 |
| 1943 | 530 | #301 | 11 | #2,363 |
| 1942 | 517 | #303 | 20 | #1,619 |
| 1941 | 541 | #275 | 9 | #2,596 |
| 1940 | 581 | #258 | 22 | #1,457 |
| 1939 | 584 | #258 | 15 | #1,847 |
| 1938 | 706 | #234 | 11 | #2,281 |
| 1937 | 702 | #232 | 17 | #1,729 |
| 1936 | 698 | #235 | 10 | #2,404 |
| 1935 | 797 | #215 | 17 | #1,740 |
| 1934 | 829 | #215 | 16 | #1,832 |
| 1933 | 872 | #198 | 14 | #1,971 |
| 1932 | 1,046 | #181 | 23 | #1,500 |
| 1931 | 1,081 | #172 | 22 | #1,523 |
| 1930 | 1,341 | #155 | 32 | #1,270 |
| 1929 | 1,463 | #149 | 26 | #1,436 |
| 1928 | 1,661 | #139 | 27 | #1,438 |
| 1927 | 1,807 | #138 | 29 | #1,394 |
| 1926 | 2,027 | #129 | 37 | #1,186 |
| 1925 | 2,215 | #126 | 33 | #1,275 |
| 1924 | 2,237 | #126 | 24 | #1,613 |
| 1923 | 2,360 | #114 | 28 | #1,408 |
| 1922 | 2,392 | #112 | 15 | #2,210 |
| 1921 | 2,248 | #119 | 31 | #1,352 |
| 1920 | 2,071 | #123 | 18 | #1,938 |
| 1919 | 1,793 | #133 | 31 | #1,289 |
| 1918 | 1,797 | #130 | 15 | #2,131 |
| 1917 | 1,714 | #128 | 16 | #1,956 |
| 1916 | 1,524 | #134 | 11 | #2,490 |
| 1915 | 1,445 | #134 | 8 | #2,987 |
| 1914 | 1,133 | #133 | 8 | #2,580 |
| 1913 | 882 | #137 | 10 | #1,901 |
| 1912 | 695 | #156 | 10 | #1,700 |
| 1911 | 353 | #203 | — | — |
| 1910 | 365 | #187 | — | — |
| 1909 | 311 | #191 | 5 | #1,624 |
| 1908 | 262 | #207 | — | — |
| 1907 | 219 | #223 | 7 | #1,169 |
| 1906 | 220 | #207 | 5 | #1,365 |
| 1905 | 186 | #230 | — | — |
| 1904 | 214 | #206 | — | — |
| 1903 | 220 | #191 | — | — |
| 1902 | 206 | #205 | — | — |
| 1901 | 195 | #206 | — | — |
| 1900 | 224 | #211 | — | — |
| 1899 | 167 | #212 | — | — |
| 1898 | 129 | #268 | — | — |
| 1897 | 152 | #223 | — | — |
| 1896 | 144 | #232 | — | — |
| 1895 | 108 | #272 | — | — |
| 1894 | 89 | #294 | — | — |
| 1893 | 87 | #290 | — | — |
| 1892 | 69 | #325 | — | — |
| 1891 | 59 | #329 | — | — |
| 1890 | 58 | #336 | — | — |
| 1889 | 53 | #343 | — | — |
| 1888 | 43 | #368 | — | — |
| 1887 | 29 | #408 | — | — |
| 1886 | 25 | #436 | — | — |
| 1885 | 26 | #410 | — | — |
| 1884 | 21 | #445 | — | — |
| 1883 | 18 | #459 | — | — |
| 1882 | 15 | #486 | — | — |
| 1881 | 11 | #529 | — | — |
| 1880 | 7 | #719 | — | — |
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).