Merline
Recorded for girlsSilent Generation2025 rank
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not recorded in 2025
2025 births
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All-time births
1,079
peak year 1924
More common than
90%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1924
- 37 births
- Best rank
- #1,214
- in 1931
- First recorded
- 1910
- #2,069 that year
- Last recorded
- 2007
- no later published record
- Average birth year
- 1942
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 71 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 192437#1,346Peak
- 192736#1,349
- 193136#1,214
- 194035#1,265
- 193931#1,340
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #1,214 in 1931 · peak births 37 in 1924
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 Merline has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.
The boys' series
No boys have been recorded with this name.
Stated, not plotted as zero — the split bar and the unisex badge are omitted rather than drawn empty.