Murriel
Murriel was last recorded in 1956, when 5 babies were given it; 633 Americans have been recorded with it between 1892 and 1956 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Murriel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Murriel?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #6,601, in 1956; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
33 babies in 1925, the peak
Murriel peaked in 1925, when 33 babies were given it (28 girls, #1,593 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | 5 | #6,601 | under 5 | |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,649 | 5 | #4,215 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,558 | 5 | #4,186 |
| 1952 | 9 | #4,028 | under 5 | |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,608 | under 5 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 9 | #2,730 | |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,930 | under 5 | |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,588 | 5 | #3,861 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,593 | under 5 | |
| 1943 | 7 | #4,083 | 5 | #3,883 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | 10 | #3,140 | under 5 | |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,473 | 5 | #3,846 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,753 | under 5 | |
| 1939 | 9 | #3,082 | 6 | #3,368 |
| 1938 | 9 | #3,109 | under 5 | |
| 1937 | 14 | #2,280 | 6 | #3,403 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,806 | under 5 | |
| 1935 | 14 | #2,272 | 5 | #4,001 |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,392 | under 5 | |
| 1933 | 15 | #2,121 | 9 | #2,668 |
| 1932 | 14 | #2,329 | under 5 | |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,706 | 5 | #4,151 |
| 1930 | 17 | #2,086 | 8 | #3,200 |
| 1929 | 15 | #2,270 | under 5 | |
| 1928 | 10 | #3,099 | under 5 | |
| 1927 | 20 | #1,997 | 8 | #3,354 |
| 1926 | 16 | #2,322 | under 5 | |
| 1925 | 28 | #1,593 | 5 | #4,690 |
| 1924 | 18 | #2,192 | 6 | #4,188 |
| 1923 | 14 | #2,559 | 7 | #3,705 |
| 1922 | 18 | #2,166 | 7 | #3,760 |
| 1921 | 18 | #2,172 | 9 | #3,144 |
| 1920 | 14 | #2,551 | 5 | #4,755 |
| 1919 | 10 | #3,154 | under 5 | |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,756 | under 5 | |
| 1917 | 16 | #2,169 | under 5 | |
| 1916 | 15 | #2,206 | under 5 | |
| 1915 | 14 | #2,218 | under 5 | |
| 1914 | 13 | #1,980 | under 5 | |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,544 | under 5 | |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,552 | under 5 | |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,746 | under 5 | |
| 1910 | 7 | #2,076 | under 5 | |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,639 | under 5 | |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,985 | under 5 | |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,639 | under 5 | |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,590 | under 5 |
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 Murriel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 633 Americans recorded as Murriel, 81% are girls and 19% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Murriel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Murriel, and how old are they?
An estimated 107 Americans named Murriel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (17% of everyone recorded); the median is 82 years old and half are between 76 and 88. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 178 people named Murriel (131 women and girls, 47 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 169 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Murriel?
Murriel is a less common spelling of Muriel: SSA has recorded 633 Murriel and 55,646 Muriel since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 56,486 babies since 1880, Murriel is the second most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 none of their 32 babies recorded by SSA was a Murriel (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Murriel
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 Murriel and names like it
- Compare Murriel and MurielBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sMurriel peaked in 1925.
- The top names of 1925The year the most babies were named Murriel.
- The names of the Silent GenerationMost people named Murriel alive today were born 1928-1945.
- Names starting with MMost given first.