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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Murrel

Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

736

peak year 1922

More common than

86%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1922
31 births
Best rank
#1,167
in 1913
First recorded
1898
#1,246 that year
Last recorded
1977
no later published record
Average birth year
1931
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
53 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 192231#1,325Peak
  2. 192630#1,346
  3. 192829#1,372
  4. 191826#1,431
  5. 192426#1,519

Rank over time

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

Best rank #1,167 in 1913 · peak births 31 in 1922

Boys and girls

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

● 80% boys■ 20% girls

736 boys · 189 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 Murrel has ranked, decade by decade

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