Merlin
Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer2025 rank
#2,343
down −271 places
2025 births
59
down −14 births
All-time births
15,049
0% of them in 2025
More common than
98%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1927
- 389 births
- Best rank
- #288
- in 1927
- First recorded
- 1885
- #898 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1946
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 134 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 1927389#288Peak
- 1926368#296
- 1931363#291
- 1925343#307
- 1921342#315
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #288 in 1927 · peak births 389 in 1927
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 94% boys■ 6% girls
15,049 boys · 919 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 Merlin has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.