girls:
54.8k births since 1880
#543 (91st percentile)
boys:
762 births since 1906
#3825 (17th percentile)
overall:
55.6k births since 1880
#1009 (87th percentile)
The name Muriel is the #1,009 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 55,564 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 87.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 87.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #543 (90.5% percentile) for all time with 54,802 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #3,825 (16.5% percentile) for all time with 762 births since 1906.
Muriel has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1906 for boys).
The name Muriel has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Muriel reached its peak popularity in 1923, achieving the 81.6% percentile (ranked #113) with 1,884 births per million. The name was most common in 1922, with 1,917 births per million (ranked 81.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Muriel ranks #925 for girls (2.3% percentile) with 15 births per million, which is 0.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Muriel reached its peak popularity in 1926, achieving the 5.8% percentile (ranked #519) with 32 births per million. The name was most common in 1907, with 44 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1966.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Muriel".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Muriel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 75.6% confident that Muriel is pronounced as MYOO-ree-uhl, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MOO-ree-uhl, at 9.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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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 Y UH1 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.
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