Merlon
Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation2025 rank
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not recorded in 2025
2025 births
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All-time births
176
peak year 1922
More common than
70%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1922
- 10 births
- Best rank
- #2,508
- in 1934
- First recorded
- 1917
- #4,375 that year
- Last recorded
- 1973
- no later published record
- Average birth year
- 1937
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 27 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 192210#2,936Peak
- 193410#2,508
- 19259#3,065
- 19279#3,077
- 19218#3,400
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #2,508 in 1934 · peak births 10 in 1922
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 97% boys■ 3% girls
176 boys · 5 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 Merlon has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.