Merveil
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Merveil is a given name, most frequently recorded in the Congo - Kinshasa, where it is the 24th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script.
- CDCongo - Kinshasa1 in 2K◐
- CGCongo - Brazzaville1 in 4.3K
- BJBenin1 in 21K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈5 ●
- Sources
- 48 ●
- 1 in 3.5M ◐
across 1 country
2.2K records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
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●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #24 | 1,669 | 1.7K rec. | — | — | Merveil | 8 |
| FR France | — | 234 | 180 rec. | — | — | Merveil | 48 |
| US United States | — | 64 | 84 rec. | — | — | Merveil | 17 |
| CM Cameroon | — | 52 | 60 rec. | — | — | Merveil | 7 |
| BE Belgium | — | 30 | 31 rec. | — | — | Merveil | 9 |
| CG Congo - Brazzaville | #22 | 26 | 25 rec. | — | — | Merveil | 7 |
| BJ Benin | #414 | 25 | 26 rec. | — | — | Merveil | 5 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 16 | 14 rec. | — | — | Merveil | 7 |
| TG Togo | #969 | 6 | 5 rec. | — | — | Merveil | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 5 | 4 rec. | 1 in 3.5M | 5 | Merveil | 2 |
| AO Angola | — | 5 | 5 rec. | — | — | Merveil | 4 |
| DE Germany | — | 5 | 6 rec. | — | — | Merveil | 6 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French1.3K57%
- English34815%
- Swahili27812%
- Portuguese904%
- Spanish643%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 1,316 | 57% |
| English | 348 | 15% |
| Swahili | 278 | 12% |
| Portuguese | 90 | 4% |
| Spanish | 64 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Evidence●
Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 5 | #42,347 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 5 | #27,027 |
| CF Central African Republic | ANE — Liste provisoire des candidats (legislatives & regionales 2025) | 2025 | 1 | #19 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 1 | #17,624 |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 4 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Merveil?
- We estimate roughly 5 people bear Merveil (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.
- In which country does Merveil have the most bearers?
- Merveil is most frequently recorded in the Congo - Kinshasa, where it is most often spelled merveil.
- How common is Merveil compared with other names?
- In the Congo - Kinshasa, Merveil is the 24th most common given name of 18,770 given names recorded there.
- Is Merveil a male or female name?
- Merveil is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
Query this name via API
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Merveil” — the 24th most common given name in Congo - Kinshasa. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.