Meriel

girls:

376 births since 1916

#5340 (7th percentile)

overall:

376 births since 1916

#7363 (5th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Meriel".

1916 2014 19162014

Key Statistics

Total Births
376
Peak Births
15
Peak Year
1934
First Recorded
1916
Peak Percentile
1.8%
Current Percentile
0.8%
Peak Rank
#557
Current Rank
#959
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Meriel

Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Meriel. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 39.1% confident that Meriel is pronounced as MEH-ree-uhl. The next most likely pronunciation is MEH-ree-ehl, at 32.6% confidence.

MEH-ree-uhl (3 syllables)
39.1% confidence
M EH1 R IY0 AH0 L
MEH-ree-ehl (3 syllables)
32.6% confidence
M EH1 R IY0 EH0 L
MEH-ree-EHL (3 syllables)
15.2% confidence
M EH1 R IY0 EH1 L
MIH-reel (2 syllables)
Verified
13.0% confidence
M IH1 R IY0 L

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Meriel. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Meriel, please vote using the thumbs up button.

meh-ree-EHL (3 syllables)
6 names 11.5k births
M EH0 R IY0 EH1 L
MAH-ree-ehl (3 syllables)
3 names 11.4k births
M AA1 R IY0 EH0 L

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like M EH1 R IY0 AH0 L) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.