Merilyn
Merilyn is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 6 births. Its best rank was 820th, in 1935.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 60.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 194675 births
- Best rank
- #820in 1935
- Since 1915
- 2,317people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,317 girls have been named Merilyn in the United States since 1915, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1946, with 75 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1943, and the 1940s alone account for 25%. It has spent 13 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Merilyn | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 33 | |
| 1920s | 346 | |
| 1930s | 583 | |
| 1940s | 585 | |
| 1950s | 311 | |
| 1960s | 123 | |
| 1970s | 37 | |
| 1980s | 41 | |
| 1990s | 60 | |
| 2000s | 130 | |
| 2010s | 56 | |
| 2020s | 12 |
In 1946, its biggest year
Merilyn was the 966th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1946 were Mary, Linda, Patricia, Barbara and Carol. See all of 1946.
Names that rose and fell with Merilyn
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Beverleypeak 1938
- Jerlinepeak 1940
- Gearldinepeak 1935
- Delorispeak 1947
- Darlynepeak 1935
- Maralynpeak 1938
- Bettyepeak 1933
- Arlyspeak 1933
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.