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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Merrel

Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

259

peak year 1922

More common than

75%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1922
15 births
Best rank
#1,315
in 1908
First recorded
1908
#1,315 that year
Last recorded
1955
no later published record
Average birth year
1928
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
34 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 192215#2,203Peak
  2. 191613#2,224
  3. 192010#2,898
  4. 192510#2,869
  5. 193310#2,484

Rank over time

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

Best rank #1,315 in 1908 · peak births 15 in 1922

Boys and girls

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

● 96% boys■ 4% girls

259 boys · 10 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 Merrel has ranked, decade by decade

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