Meryl

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Meryl: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Meryl: Recorded since 1996, its highest recorded position is #790, and it stood at #885 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
17times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#790highest recorded position

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

How to read this chart

A rank is a position in one registrar's list for one year.
Ranks from different countries are separate scales, so compare shapes, not numbers.
A rise in rank can be a small change in births, especially far down a list.

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2096
1997	#1802
2000	#3912
2006	#5061
2008	#4524
2009	#3031
2010	#4688
2014	#4003
2015	#3615
2016	#4096
2018	#5666
2020	#5493
2021	#3961
2024	#3695

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 14 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #790 among girls in Scotland, #3695 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Year-by-year storyFirst recorded, most recent, each country and each decade

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2096 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #885 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Meryl appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 14 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 70 births with the name.

Meryl across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Meryl's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#2096 (1996)	#1802 (1997)	#3695 (2024)	14 of 29	70 (1996–2024)	9 (1997)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#876 (2014)	#876 (2014)	#885 (2025)	2 of 12	6 (2014–2025)	3 (2014)

Meryl by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Meryl in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	16	2 of 10	8
2000s	17	4 of 10	4
2010sbusiest	23	5 of 10	5
2020s	14	3 of 10	5

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 5 births a year.

See the names England and Wales has recorded the most births with →

Full data tableEvery published rank and count

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #790 in Scotland in 2024.

Meryl's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#3695	6	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#3961	5	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#5493	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#5666	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#4096	5	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#3615	6	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4003	5	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#4688	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3031	7	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#4524	4	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#5061	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3912	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1802	9	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2096	7	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#885	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#876	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#790	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

Where Meryl is officially recorded

3 official registrars have recorded Meryl, between 1996 and 2025, in 15 of those 30 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Each mark is a year the registrar recorded the name; the diamond is that registrar's highest position. Gaps can mean a year was not published, not that the name went unused.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
England and Wales	1996–2024	14	#1802 in 1997
Republic of Ireland	2014–2025	2	#876 in 2014
Scotland	2024	1	#790 in 2024

Its high point came 27 years earlier in England and Wales (1997) than in Scotland (2024).

No registrar recorded it for 5 years after 2000; it appears again in 2006.

Names measured beside itNeighbours, comparisons, related names and shared trajectories

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 15 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #790, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 9 births, registered in England and Wales in 1997.

Its record falls into 8 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 5 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2014, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
3 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
8separate stretches the record falls into6 to 9 separate stretches →
5 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period4 to 9 years missing →
#885position in 2025, its most recent recorded year
28 yearsyears between the first and last registrar to record itAcross 21 to 40 years →
9births registered in its largest year, 1997Under 25 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Messiah · #1391, 19y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Aleia · #790, 13y
Marcela · #790, 16y
Peach · #790, 11y
Zariah · #790, 18y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Adanna · #790, 27y
Ariadne · #790, 27y
Arwyn · #790, 24y
Bali · #790, 10y

Meryl was ranked #790 in Scotland · Girls in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Aadya#790
Aafiyah#790
Aairah#790
Aarya#790

What is known about Meryl

How to read this

How often it is registered: Official record; 3 official registrars, 1996–2025.
Meaning: Not established; Not researched yet.
Origin: Not established; Not researched yet.
Pronunciation: Not established; Not recorded yet.

A claim marked not established does not mean the name lacks a meaning or is not widely used — only that Namewise has not sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #790 in Scotland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Meryl

Meryl at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Meryl across 2 official records

Meryl by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Popularity data

Where Meryl is officially recorded

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Meryl

What is known about Meryl

Meryl at a glance

Meryl across 2 official records

Meryl by decade in England and Wales · Girls

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Meryl