Meaning and history
From an English surname derived either from the given name Muriel or from place names meaning “pleasant hill.”
20062006: 8 births, rank #8,732
2007: 9 births, rank #8,173
2008: 11 births, rank #7,187
2009: 6 births, rank #10,994
2010: 12 births, rank #6,698
20112011: 11 births, rank #7,009
2012: 8 births, rank #8,864
2013: 6 births, rank #10,728
2014: 7 births, rank #9,642
2015: 12 births, rank #6,676
20162016: 11 births, rank #7,157
2017: 6 births, rank #10,775
2018: 8 births, rank #8,819
2019: 10 births, rank #7,643
2020: 6 births, rank #10,605
20212021: 6 births, rank #10,799
2022: 8 births, rank #8,990
2023: 7 births, rank #9,763
2024: 6 births, rank #10,938
20252025: 14 births, rank #6,143
Merrill rose from #922 to #906 for boys between 1967 and 1968. Its highest annual birth count came in 1926, with 305 births.