Merrill
Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation2025 rank
#6,333
up +5,541 places
2025 births
14
up +8 births
All-time births
12,988
0% of them in 2025
More common than
98%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1926
- 305 births
- Best rank
- #321
- in 1916
- First recorded
- 1880
- #515 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1938
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 145 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 1926305#331Peak
- 1918296#333
- 1925292#340
- 1920289#345
- 1927284#343
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #321 in 1916 · peak births 305 in 1926
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 86% boys■ 14% girls
12,988 boys · 2,077 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 Merrill has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.