Meral
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 10 babies a year in England and Wales.
Meral by the numbers
In 2025, 10 babies in England and Wales were named Meral. In the US, 17 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 17 babies in 2013, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Meral
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Meral. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Meral
Names that are said the same way as Meral, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
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