How popular is the name Meryl?

Meryl ranks 1,670th among girls' names in US records, with 7,383 births since 1892. Over the past decade it accounts for 328.

Is Meryl a unisex name?

No. Meryl is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1956, when 194 children were given the name. It has been in use for 133 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Merrill, Merrell, Meryll. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.

Girl name#1,670 of girl names

Pronounced M EH1 R AH0 L (ARPABET)

Meryl is a girls' name, and first appears in 1892. It has been given to 7,383 children — the 1,670th most common girls' name on record.

It is still recorded, but barely: 328 births across the past decade, against a peak of 194 in a single year. That peak was in 1956.

Three other spellings are counted in that total — Merrill, Merrell and Meryll — because they are pronounced identically.

1956194

These spellings sound identical to Meryl and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Meryl?: Meryl ranks 1,670th among girls' names in US records, with 7,383 births since 1892. Over the past decade it accounts for 328.
Is Meryl a unisex name?: No. Meryl is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Meryl most popular?: 1956, when 194 children were given the name. It has been in use for 133 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
How else is Meryl spelled?: Merrill, Merrell, Meryll. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.