Merle
Meaning of Merle
Merle is a male name with English origin. It is pronounced as MURL (/mɜrl/). This name has variations, with Meryl being one of them. Merle has been given to baby boys in the United States since at least 1880. Over the years, its popularity has fluctuated, but it continues to be used today. In recent years, around 20 to 30 newborn boys have been named Merle annually in the US. While the name doesn't currently rank high on the popularity charts, it still carries a sense of charm and uniqueness.
Pronunciation
English
- Pronunced as MURL (/mɜrl/)
U.S. Popularity Chart
Notable People Named Merle
| Merle Ronald Haggard was a renowned American country music singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler. |
| Merle Robert Travis was an influential American country and western singer, songwriter, and guitarist known for his unique "Travis picking" guitar style and songs that highlighted the lives of American coal miners. |
| Merle Oberon was a British actress known for her roles in British and American films, including The Private Life of Henry VIII and The Dark Angel, and she hid her mixed heritage to avoid discrimination in her career. |
| Merle Hoffman is an American journalist and activist. |
| Merle Temkin is a New York City-based artist known for her vibrant, abstracted paintings based on her own enlarged fingerprint and site-specific mirrored installations, with her work often involving knitting-like processes of assemblage and re-assemblage, visual fragmentation and dislocation, and explorations of identity, the hand and body, and gender. |
| Merle Goldman - Merle Dorothy Rosenblatt Goldman was an American historian and sinologist known for her studies on the role of intellectuals under Mao Zedong's rule and on democracy in present-day China. |
| Merle Dandridge is a well-known American actress and singer, recognized for her performances in Broadway musicals and her roles in popular video games and television series. |
| Merle Hazard is an American satirist known for his country songs about unconventional topics, including economics, atonal music, and physics, and has been dubbed "the 'Weird Al' of Wall Street." |
| Wyatt Merle Kilgore was an American singer, songwriter, and manager, known for his work with Hank Williams Jr. |
| Merle Marsicano was an American dancer and choreographer known for collaborating with avant-garde composers and artists. |
| Eddy Merle Watson was a renowned American folk and bluegrass guitarist, known for his collaborations with his father, Doc Watson, and honored through the annual MerleFest music festival. |
| Merle Colby Allin Jr. is an American bass guitarist and the elder brother of the late punk rock vocalist GG Allin. |
| Merle Good is an American author and publisher known for his novel Happy as the Grass was Green, a significant work in American Mennonite literature. |
| Merle Bettenhausen, a former American race car driver, is part of the renowned Bettenhausen racing family, being the son of Tony Bettenhausen and the brother of Gary Bettenhausen and Tony Bettenhausen Jr. |
| Merle Edwin Wagoner was a multi-sport coach and college athletics administrator at Kent State University in the early 20th century. |
