girls:
20 births since 1924
#5696 (0th percentile)
boys:
130 births since 1912
#4456 (3rd percentile)
overall:
150 births since 1912
#7589 (2nd percentile)
The name Meril is the #7,589 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 150 recorded births since 1912. This represents the 1.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,456 (2.8% percentile) for all time with 130 births since 1912. For girls, it ranks #5,696 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 20 births since 1924.
Meril first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1912 (1912 for boys and 1924 for girls). Birth data for Meril is available in 22 out of the 49 years between 1912 and 1960 (20 years for boys and 4 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 Meril has been given predominantly to boys, with 86.7% of all recorded births being male. In 1960, 100.0% of babies named Meril were boys.
For boys, Meril reached its peak popularity in 1932, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #525) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1912, with 11 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1960.
For girls, Meril reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #610) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1924, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1953.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Meril".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Meril. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 80.0% confident that Meril is pronounced as MEH-rihl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MEH-ruhl, at 20.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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