Meryl
Meryl is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 23 births. Its best rank was 751st, in 1952.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 230.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1956156 births
- Best rank
- #751in 1952
- Since 1892
- 5,585people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,154 girls have been named Meryl in the United States since 1892, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1956, with 156 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1957, and the 1950s alone account for 25%. It has spent 12 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 431 boys have also been given it, 7.7% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Meryl | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 31 | |
| 1900s | 49 | |
| 1910s | 188 | |
| 1920s | 315 | |
| 1930s | 290 | |
| 1940s | 627 | |
| 1950s | 1,283 | |
| 1960s | 611 | |
| 1970s | 199 | |
| 1980s | 663 | |
| 1990s | 335 | |
| 2000s | 203 | |
| 2010s | 263 | |
| 2020s | 97 |
In 1956, its biggest year
Meryl was the 795th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1956 were Mary, Debra, Linda, Deborah and Susan. See all of 1956.
Names that rose and fell with Meryl
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kathyrnpeak 1953
- Aletapeak 1947
- Cathrynpeak 1956
- Gwendolynpeak 1953
- Janeypeak 1947
- Herlindapeak 1952
- Kathleenpeak 1951
- Bernadettepeak 1958
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.