Meryle — unisex name

What the Data Says About Meryle

The Social Security Administration has registered 397 babies named Meryle between 1907 and 1963, spanning 57 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Meryle currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1963. The name reached its historical peak in 1924, when 18 babies received it in a single year. Meryle is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 32 additional births since 1928.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Meryle performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 98 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Meryle shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 15 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Meryle in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Meryle 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 397 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.