Meryl — #5427 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Meryl

The Social Security Administration has registered 5,154 babies named Meryl between 1892 and 2024, spanning 133 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Meryl currently holds the #5427 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1956, when 156 babies received it in a single year. Meryl is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 431 additional births since 1912.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Meryl performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 1,283 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Meryl shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 1,671 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New Jersey and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Meryl in 11 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Meryl 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 5,154 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.