Merlyn
Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation2025 rank
#11,534
not recorded in 2025
2025 births
6
All-time births
3,410
0% of them in 2025
More common than
95%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1930
- 137 births
- Best rank
- #509
- in 1931
- First recorded
- 1908
- #1,532 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1938
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 88 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 1930137#510Peak
- 1931128#509
- 1927114#580
- 1934114#553
- 1938110#558
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #509 in 1931 · peak births 137 in 1930
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 68% boys■ 32% girls
3,410 boys · 1,635 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 Merlyn has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.