Muriël

given name · Latin script

A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country

Muriël is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Jamaica it is the 87th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Muireall, from muir (“sea”), from Old Irish muir, from Proto-Celtic *mori, from Proto-Indo-European *móri; + geal (“white, bright”), from Old Irish gel, from Proto-C.

  • GYGuyana1 in 5.7K(measured from records)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 17K
  • USUnited States1 in 21K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

15,477 people, 2020

Record sources
365 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 5.7K (inferred from the name graph)

Guyana

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Muriel in US United States, ES Spain, NL Netherlands and 1 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)
Derivation of Muriël: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Muriël
  1. Old Irishmuir(measured from records)
  2. Proto-Celtic*mori(measured from records)
  3. Proto-Indo-European*móri(measured from records)
  4. Old Irishgel(measured from records)
  5. Proto-Celtic*gelos(measured from records)
  6. Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰelh₂-“to shine”(measured from records)

Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Muireall, from muir (“sea”), from Old Irish muir, from Proto-Celtic *mori, from Proto-Indo-European *móri; + geal (“white, bright”), from Old Irish gel, from Proto-Celtic *gelos, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₂- (“to shine”).

Cited for this meaning 7

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
  • Irish first names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Muriël counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Muriël is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#95315,4771 in 21K15KMuriel365
BR Brazil—6,8671 in 31K6.9K—3
NL Netherlands—1,0151 in 17K1KMuriel64
ES Spain—5921 in 84K5.7KMuriel75
GY Guyana—1311 in 5.7K131—2
JM Jamaica#87———Muriel4

15,477 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Muriël is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name27 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Spain

    Languages: French, Swahili, Arabic

    Also written Muriel, Mûriel, Murièl, Müriel, Muriél

  • Spanish given name22 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Brazil, United States, Chile

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Muriel, Muriél, Müriel, Murĭel, Muríel

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Muriel

  • Italian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy, United Kingdom, San Marino

    Also written Muriel

  • Turkish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, United Kingdom, France

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Muriel, Müriel

  • Croatian given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Croatia

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

    Also written Muriel

  • English (South Africa) given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Africa, United Kingdom, Netherlands

    Also written Muriel

  • Finnish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Finland, Switzerland

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Muriel

8 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
19401960198020002020Muriël Agsteribbe, b. 1948Muriël Messchaert, b. 1989Muriël Meijer, b. 1999Muriël Meijer, b. 2003

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence

(measured from records)

2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Muriël
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—1K#1,289
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—659#2,693
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—8#20,463

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Muriël mean, and where does it come from?
Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Muireall, from muir (“sea”), from Old Irish muir, from Proto-Celtic *mori, from Proto-Indo-European *móri; + geal (“white, bright”), from Old Irish gel, from Proto-C… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,… and 5 other sources.
Is Muriël a male or female name?
Muriël is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Netherlands (Meertens NVB).
In which country does Muriël have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Muriël, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled muriel.
Where is Muriël most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Muriël is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 5.7 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Muriël?
In the United States, the national register counted 15,477 people named Muriël in 2020, about 1 in 21 thousand residents.
How common is Muriël compared with other names?
In the United States, Muriël is the 953rd most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Muriël” — the 953rd most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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