Merle

Where Merle comes from

Borrowed from French Merle.
— Wiktionary's entry for Merle
  • English
  • Vowel-ended
Merle through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #425 among boys, with 17 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1912
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name. From this year on, more boys have.
  3. 1918
    Peak, #170
    795 babies named Merle, its best rank.
  4. 1944
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #305.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
  • A female given name from English.
Namesakes

No widely recognized namesakes for Merle in Wikidata.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.