Merle

Other ways to spell Merle

5 other spellings sound the same in the SSA's records.

Sounds like
/mˈɜːl/

How the espeak speech engine reads Merle. Hear it said

Counted as one name
#3,074Up 376 from #3,450

For boys in 2025 when every name’s spellings are grouped. On its own, Merle is #3,450.

Spellings given to boys in 2025: 33 births in all

  1. #3,450Merle33

Also given in other years or to girls: Merl, Murl, Murle, Mirl, Mirle.

Close, but counted apart

These sound a little different to the speech engine, so each is counted on its own.

How spellings are grouped: every name in the SSA’s records was read aloud by espeak, an open-source speech engine, and spellings with the same reading (ignoring stress and vowel length) are counted together. It reads the letters, not what parents meant, so some calls will be off.