girls:
189 births since 1901
#5527 (3rd percentile)
boys:
736 births since 1898
#3851 (16th percentile)
overall:
925 births since 1898
#6814 (12th percentile)
The name Murrel is the #6,814 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 925 recorded births since 1898. This represents the 11.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 11.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,851 (16.0% percentile) for all time with 736 births since 1898. For girls, it ranks #5,527 (3.3% percentile) for all time with 189 births since 1901.
Murrel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1898 (1898 for boys and 1901 for girls). Birth data for Murrel is available in 55 out of the 80 years between 1898 and 1977 (53 years for boys and 23 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 Murrel has been given predominantly to boys, with 79.6% of all recorded births being male. In 1977, 100.0% of babies named Murrel were boys.
For boys, Murrel reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 4.8% percentile (ranked #520) with 28 births per million. The name was most common in 1898, with 38 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1977.
For girls, Murrel reached its peak popularity in 1934, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #560) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1901, with 28 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1939.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Murrel".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Murrel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 82.9% confident that Murrel is pronounced as MER-uhl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MOO-ruhl, at 17.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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