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Merle
Rank in 2024
#4,602
Born in 2024
22
Peak year
1925 · #175
Origin
English
Also recorded for girls:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 22 boys were named Merle, about 1 in every 77,969.
- It peaked in 1925 with 836 babies, ranked #175.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 30,630 boys 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.
- 0.7Greatest1901–27
- 0.5Silent1928–45
- 0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 11,717 babies, 0.70 per 1,000. Silent: 9,898 babies, 0.48 per 1,000. Boomers: 5,499 babies, 0.15 per 1,000. Gen X: 1,606 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Millennials: 664 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen Z: 334 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 273 babies, 0.01 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.