Entry № 6797 · Catalan origin

Meritxell Meritxell — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ meh-ree-CHEL /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Catalan
Meaning
"Patron saint of Andorra"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Catalan)

A name that means "patron saint of andorra".

Meritxell is the Catalan name of the patron saint of Andorra. Meritxell Mateu — Andorran politician. Princess Meritxell — Andorran heritage naming.

Patron saint of Andorra.

The name in its native script.

Meritxell
Transliteration
Meritxell
Pronunciation
/ ˌmɛr.iˈtʃɛl /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Meritxell stands.

Meritxell does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Meritxells before her.

Real people
Meritxell Batet
Spanish-Catalan President of Congress of Deputies.
born 1973
In fiction
Our Lady of Meritxell
Andorra's patron saint.

Names connected to Meritxell.

The number behind Meritxell.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Meritxell reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.