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.

Merlean

#28,308 most common girls' name of all time · #45,806 across all names · 0% male / 100% female · used 1925–1941

Rank among girls
#28,308
Rank overall
#45,806 of 105,966
First appeared
1925
Years on the list
12 of 146
All-time
72
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1926 #3,558
Best rank
#3,429 1934
Girls Boys peak 9/yr
1940

Merlean first appears in 1925. 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
1941 8 — 8 #3,512
1940 5 — 5 #4,855
1939 5 — 5 #4,764
1938 5 — 5 #4,808
1937 5 — 5 #4,760
1936 5 — 5 #4,713
1934 8 — 8 #3,429
1933 5 — 5 #4,729
1932 5 — 5 #4,989
1930 6 — 6 #4,486
1926 9 — 9 #3,558
1925 6 — 6 #4,951