Murel
Murel was last recorded in 1962, when 5 babies were given it; 710 Americans have been recorded with it between 1892 and 1962 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Murel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Murel?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #4,454, in 1962; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
33 babies in 1926, the peak
Murel peaked in 1926, when 33 babies were given it (18 boys, #1,883 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | under 5 | 5 | #4,454 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 6 | #3,805 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 5 | #4,364 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 5 | #4,304 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 7 | #3,405 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 5 | #4,181 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 8 | #2,994 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 5 | #4,036 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 7 | #3,208 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 6 | #3,561 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947 | under 5 | 10 | #2,612 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 9 | #2,520 | |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,722 | 8 | #2,891 |
| 1942 | under 5 | 10 | #2,482 | |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,472 | 10 | #2,443 |
| 1940 | under 5 | 10 | #2,434 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 7 | #3,032 | |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,793 | 18 | #1,666 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,728 | 9 | #2,620 |
| 1936 | 9 | #3,027 | 12 | #2,143 |
| 1935 | under 5 | 8 | #2,871 | |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,375 | 9 | #2,692 |
| 1933 | under 5 | 12 | #2,183 | |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,884 | 10 | #2,580 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,781 | 21 | #1,574 |
| 1930 | 15 | #2,270 | 11 | #2,557 |
| 1929 | 10 | #3,075 | 14 | #2,163 |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,374 | 13 | #2,352 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,773 | 17 | #2,009 |
| 1926 | 15 | #2,437 | 18 | #1,883 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,309 | 19 | #1,848 |
| 1924 | 10 | #3,303 | 16 | #2,106 |
| 1923 | 11 | #3,060 | 16 | #2,089 |
| 1922 | 15 | #2,454 | 12 | #2,586 |
| 1921 | 13 | #2,735 | 16 | #2,123 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,851 | 13 | #2,415 |
| 1919 | under 5 | 20 | #1,739 | |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,967 | 11 | #2,652 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,607 | 14 | #2,158 |
| 1916 | 12 | #2,609 | 17 | #1,818 |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,101 | 13 | #2,139 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,566 | 10 | #2,218 |
| 1913 | under 5 | 8 | #2,209 | |
| 1900 | 5 | #2,132 | under 5 | |
| 1892 | under 5 | 5 | #1,198 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Murel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 710 Americans recorded as Murel, 32% are girls and 68% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Murel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Murel, and how old are they?
An estimated 94 Americans named Murel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 205 people named Murel (64 women and girls, 141 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 155 born in the U.S. The Census count is 32% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 5,490 babies since 1880, Murel is the fourth most given (13% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Murel
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Murel and names like it
- Compare Murel and MurlBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sMurel peaked in 1926.
- Missouri’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Murel since 1910.
- The top names of 1926The year the most babies were named Murel.
- Names starting with MMost given first.