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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Merced

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

764

peak year 1942

More common than

87%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1942
19 births
Best rank
#1,189
in 1905
First recorded
1905
#1,189 that year
Last recorded
2021
no later published record
Average birth year
1960
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
87 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 194219#1,662Peak
  2. 195118#1,813
  3. 191916#2,034
  4. 193015#2,034
  5. 194014#1,954

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #1,189 in 1905 · peak births 19 in 1942

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 81% boys■ 19% girls

764 boys · 181 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Merced has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.