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.

Merlen

#18,111 most common boys' name of all time · #47,431 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1916–1949

Rank among boys
#18,111
Rank overall
#47,431 of 105,966
First appeared
1916
Years on the list
10 of 146
All-time
65
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1923 #3,145
Best rank
#3,093 1919
Girls Boys peak 9/yr
19201940

Merlen first appears in 1916. 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
1949 — 7 7 #3,209
1943 — 5 5 #3,874
1938 — 6 6 #3,454
1936 — 6 6 #3,454
1935 — 6 6 #3,552
1929 — 5 5 #4,349
1924 — 7 7 #3,792
1923 — 9 9 #3,145
1919 — 9 9 #3,093
1916 — 5 5 #4,449