Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Merilynn

#27,225 most common girls' name of all time · #44,079 across all names · 0% male / 100% female · used 1922–1959

Rank among girls
#27,225
Rank overall
#44,079 of 105,966
First appeared
1922
Years on the list
13 of 146
All-time
80
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1958 #4,344
Best rank
#3,602 1945
Girls Boys peak 9/yr
1940

Merilynn first appears in 1922. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
1959 5 — 5 #6,600
1958 9 — 9 #4,344
1955 5 — 5 #6,242
1954 6 — 6 #5,450
1952 5 — 5 #5,945
1950 6 — 6 #5,041
1949 6 — 6 #5,002
1947 8 — 8 #4,209
1945 8 — 8 #3,602
1944 6 — 6 #4,390
1943 5 — 5 #5,126
1942 5 — 5 #5,092
1922 6 — 6 #4,984