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Merle
Rank in 2024
unranked
Born in 2024
0
Peak year
1921 · #311
Origin
English
Also recorded for boys:22 in 2024 (#4,602)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- No girls were recorded as Merle in 2024; the SSA lists names only when 5 or more babies get them.
- It peaked in 1921 with 442 babies, ranked #311.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 14,718 girls have been named Merle since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Merle per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.3Greatest1901–27
- 0.2Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- 0Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 6,859 babies, 0.34 per 1,000. Silent: 4,427 babies, 0.21 per 1,000. Boomers: 2,150 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Gen X: 204 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Millennials: 75 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Z: 10 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Borrowed from French Merle. ==== Proper noun ==== Merle A surname from French of French origin. A male given name transferred from the surname.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- A female given name from English.
- Origin
- English
- Say it
- Not recorded
From Wiktionary’s entry for Merle, CC BY-SA 4.0.