Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Merial

#25,775 most common girls' name of all time · #41,819 across all names · 0% male / 100% female · used 1914–1962

Rank among girls
#25,775
Rank overall
#41,819 of 105,966
First appeared
1914
Years on the list
15 of 146
All-time
92
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1922 #3,570
Best rank
#3,496 1916
Girls Boys peak 9/yr
192019401960

Merial first appears in 1914. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
1962 5 — 5 #6,828
1949 5 — 5 #5,534
1947 7 — 7 #4,498
1946 5 — 5 #5,218
1943 6 — 6 #4,423
1941 5 — 5 #4,702
1936 5 — 5 #4,493
1932 5 — 5 #4,723
1929 6 — 6 #4,328
1926 6 — 6 #4,590
1924 9 — 9 #3,577
1922 9 — 9 #3,570
1920 5 — 5 #5,320
1916 8 — 8 #3,496
1914 6 — 6 #3,589