Murel
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/məəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Murel is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.6M(measured from records)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 101K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 244K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 79 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 101K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Murel 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 646K | — | Murel | 1 |
| US United States | 205 | 1 in 1.6M | 141 | Murel | 79 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Murel | 4 |
| CA Canada | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 894K | — | Murel | 6 |
| IT Italy | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Murel | 2 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 244K | — | Murel | 1 |
| EE Estonia | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 101K | 39 | — | 6 |
| SG Singapore | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 673K | — | Murel | 1 |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | — |
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; Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hilje Murelb. 1975EEEstonian actress (born 1975)
- Madli Murelb. 1991EEEstonian equestrian (born 1991)
- Ivar MurelEEEstonian cinematographer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 39 | #2,625 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 33 | #3,160 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Murel?
- A machine transcription gives /məəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Murel a male or female name?
- Murel is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Murel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.2 thousand people named Murel in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled murel.
- How common is the name Murel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 205 people named Murel in 2020, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/murelThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Murel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.