Merveille

given name · French · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Merveille is a given name, most frequently recorded in the Congo - Kinshasa, where it is the 2nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: wonder; marvel.

rarermore common
  • CDCongo - Kinshasa1 in 576◐
  • FRFrance1 in 175K
  • CGCongo - Brazzaville1 in 1.5K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈56 ●

across 5 countries

Sources
146 ●

12K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 392K ◐

Sweden

Meaning & origin●

wonder; marvel

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Merveille is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CD Congo - Kinshasa#25,7085.7K rec.—5Merveille16
FR France—3,0154.1K rec.—63Merveille146
CM Cameroon#173612726 rec.——Merveille24
BE Belgium—259555 rec.—366Merveille40
US United States—170359 rec.—7Merveille59
BJ Benin#1308176 rec.——Merveille14
CG Congo - Brazzaville#47478 rec.—1Merveille15
CI Côte d’Ivoire—4757 rec.——Merveille7
GA Gabon#6453428 rec.—7Merveille7
TG Togo#4812825 rec.——Merveille6
SE Sweden—26△4 rec.1 in 392K26—5
NL Netherlands—16△7 rec.1 in 1.1M16—8

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Languages●

  • French8.9K66%
  • English1.9K14%
  • Swahili9597%
  • Portuguese3132%
  • Spanish3022%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French8,94466%
English1,88414%
Swahili9597%
Portuguese3132%
Spanish3022%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Merveille is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name4.0K records spelled Merveille6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Congo - Kinshasa, Cameroon, United States, Belgium

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Mėrvęįllę, Męrvėïllē

  • Portuguese given name749 records spelled Merveille6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Congo - Kinshasa, United States, Cameroon, Brazil

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Mêrveillê, Merveillé, Mêrvêîllê, Mërvëillë

  • Arabic given name90 records spelled Merveille4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Congo - Kinshasa, United Arab Emirates

    Also written Mërvëïllë, Mêrvëille

37 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.

Over time●

0204060801900192019401960198073 · 1951

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Merveille in INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000), France, 1891–1991
Yearrecords
189126
190128
191145
192138
193140
194152
195173
196164
197169
198159
199163

FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

199020002010Merveille Biankadi, b. 1995Merveille Fundambu, b. 1999Merveille Kanjinga, b. 2003Merveille Mbalayi Mbamba, b. 2005Merveille, b. 2007

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●

Attested in 33 sources across 21 countries.

Official registers attesting Merveille
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)2008366#4,363
BE BelgiumStatbel — Noms de famille (family names)—347#4,767
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195173—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197169—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196164—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199163—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198159—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194152—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)191145—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)193140—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)192138—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)190128—

Reference works 2

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 90 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Merveille?
We estimate roughly 56 people bear Merveille (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
In which country does Merveille have the most bearers?
Merveille is most frequently recorded in the Congo - Kinshasa, where it is most often spelled merveille.
How common is Merveille compared with other names?
In the Congo - Kinshasa, Merveille is the 2nd most common given name of 18,770 given names recorded there.
Is Merveille a male or female name?
Merveille is a female 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.
What does the name Merveille mean?
Recorded meaning: wonder; marvel
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Merveille” — the 2nd most common given name in Congo - Kinshasa. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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