Name meaning & stats
Meryl
Meryl (Scottish Gaelic origin). 4,436 US babies since 1940, peak 1956.
What it means
No agreed meaning on record
Scottish Gaelic
In US birth records
Peak year: 1956
4,436 US babies were named Meryl between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Meryl (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 54% of the family
- Meryl 54%
- Merrilee 22%
- Merilee 14%
- Meriel 3%
- Merryl 3%
- Meral 3%
- Meryle 2%
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 1956)