Merrell
Merrell is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191527 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1911
- 1,319people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,164 boys have been named Merrell in the United States since 1911, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1915, with 27 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 27 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1942, and the 1920s alone account for 19%.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 155 girls have also been given it, 12% of the total.
By decade
| Decade | boys named Merrell | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 134 | |
| 1920s | 220 | |
| 1930s | 162 | |
| 1940s | 196 | |
| 1950s | 150 | |
| 1960s | 81 | |
| 1970s | 94 | |
| 1980s | 51 | |
| 1990s | 42 | |
| 2000s | 15 | |
| 2010s | 19 |
In 1915, its biggest year
Merrell was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1915 were John, William, James, Robert and Joseph. See all of 1915.
Names that rose and fell with Merrell
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Thermanpeak 1919
- Thurmonpeak 1930
- Hiawathapeak 1934
- Burnellpeak 1920
- Laddiepeak 1919
- Gordanpeak 1930
- Rodmanpeak 1928
- Wallispeak 1940
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.