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.

Merlynn

#30,918 most common girls' name of all time · #49,883 across all names · 0% male / 100% female · used 1939–1958

Rank among girls
#30,918
Rank overall
#49,883 of 105,966
First appeared
1939
Years on the list
10 of 146
All-time
56
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1948 #3,819
Best rank
#3,819 1948
Girls Boys peak 9/yr
1940

Merlynn first appears in 1939. 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
1958 5 — 5 #6,564
1956 5 — 5 #6,474
1955 5 — 5 #6,350
1950 6 — 6 #5,136
1948 9 — 9 #3,819
1946 5 — 5 #5,505
1944 5 — 5 #5,094
1942 5 — 5 #5,244
1941 6 — 6 #4,383
1939 5 — 5 #4,925