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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Meryle

Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

397

peak year 1924

More common than

81%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1924
18 births
Best rank
#2,070
in 1944
First recorded
1907
#2,279 that year
Last recorded
1963
no later published record
Average birth year
1934
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
45 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 192418#2,189Peak
  2. 194418#2,070
  3. 191716#2,167
  4. 192014#2,544
  5. 192114#2,589

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #2,070 in 1944 · peak births 18 in 1924

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 7% boys■ 93% girls

32 boys · 397 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Meryle has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.