Merton
Recorded for boysSilent Generation2025 rank
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not recorded in 2025
2025 births
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All-time births
4,247
peak year 1920
More common than
96%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1920
- 150 births
- Best rank
- #333
- in 1880
- First recorded
- 1880
- #333 that year
- Last recorded
- 1995
- no later published record
- Average birth year
- 1928
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 105 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 1920150#494Peak
- 1923141#511
- 1925141#514
- 1921139#528
- 1918137#513
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #333 in 1880 · peak births 150 in 1920
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 Merton has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.
The girls' series
No girls have been recorded with this name.
Stated, not plotted as zero — the split bar and the unisex badge are omitted rather than drawn empty.