Meryl

Where Meryl comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Meryl.

  • Scottish Gaelic
Meryl through the years
  1. 1892
    First appearance
    #1,278 among girls with 6 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1952
    Peak, #747
    141 babies named Meryl, its best rank.
  3. 1964
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,393.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Scottish Gaelic, variant of Muriel.
Namesakes

No widely recognized namesakes for Meryl 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.