Meral — #10507 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Meral

The Social Security Administration has registered 212 babies named Meral between 1985 and 2024, spanning 40 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Meral currently holds the #10507 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 24 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Meral performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 142 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Meral shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Meral in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Meral in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 212 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.