Merril
Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation2025 rank
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not recorded in 2025
2025 births
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All-time births
858
peak year 1920
More common than
88%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1920
- 37 births
- Best rank
- #1,201
- in 1920
- First recorded
- 1910
- #1,277 that year
- Last recorded
- 2008
- no later published record
- Average birth year
- 1933
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 55 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 192037#1,201Peak
- 192132#1,314
- 192431#1,349
- 191829#1,332
- 192629#1,372
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #1,201 in 1920 · peak births 37 in 1920
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 86% boys■ 14% girls
858 boys · 134 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 Merril has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.