Muriel
Muriel is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 50 births. Its best rank was 112th, in 1922.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 500.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19222,392 births
- Best rank
- #112in 1922
- Since 1880
- 54,852people given the name
The story in the numbers
54,852 girls have been named Muriel in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1922, with 2,392 births — 0.20% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 50 births in 2024, against 2,392 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1925, and the 1920s alone account for 37%. It has spent 85 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Muriel | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 248 | |
| 1890s | 1,062 | |
| 1900s | 2,257 | |
| 1910s | 11,701 | |
| 1920s | 20,481 | |
| 1930s | 8,656 | |
| 1940s | 4,666 | |
| 1950s | 2,571 | |
| 1960s | 1,265 | |
| 1970s | 498 | |
| 1980s | 433 | |
| 1990s | 360 | |
| 2000s | 298 | |
| 2010s | 218 | |
| 2020s | 138 |
In 1922, its biggest year
Muriel was the 112th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1922 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1922.
Names that rose and fell with Muriel
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Marjorypeak 1921
- Dorothypeak 1924
- Bernicepeak 1921
- Onetapeak 1922
- Lorenepeak 1920
- Erlinepeak 1927
- Dorthapeak 1921
- Eleanorepeak 1921
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.