girls:
35 births since 1920
#5681 (1st percentile)
boys:
205 births since 1913
#4381 (4th percentile)
overall:
240 births since 1913
#7499 (3rd percentile)
The name Merel is the #7,499 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 240 recorded births since 1913. This represents the 3.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,381 (4.4% percentile) for all time with 205 births since 1913. For girls, it ranks #5,681 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 35 births since 1920.
Merel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1913 (1913 for boys and 1920 for girls). Birth data for Merel is available in 31 out of the 59 years between 1913 and 1971 (29 years for boys and 5 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Merel has been given predominantly to boys, with 85.4% of all recorded births being male. In 1971, 100.0% of babies named Merel were boys.
For boys, Merel reached its peak popularity in 1926, achieving the 1.6% percentile (ranked #542) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1926, with 12 births per million (ranked 1.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1971.
For girls, Merel reached its peak popularity in 1939, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #577) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1939, with 8 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1955.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Merel".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Merel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 67.6% confident that Merel is pronounced as MEH-ruhl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MEH-rehl, at 13.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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