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.

Merrillyn

#27,625 most common girls' name of all time · #44,716 across all names · 0% male / 100% female · used 1930–1949

Rank among girls
#27,625
Rank overall
#44,716 of 105,966
First appeared
1930
Years on the list
12 of 146
All-time
77
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1938 #2,925
Best rank
#2,925 1938
Girls Boys peak 10/yr
1940

Merrillyn first appears in 1930. 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 5 — 5 #5,760
1948 5 — 5 #5,715
1946 5 — 5 #5,437
1944 7 — 7 #3,965
1942 5 — 5 #5,167
1941 6 — 6 #4,337
1940 5 — 5 #4,886
1939 9 — 9 #3,116
1938 10 — 10 #2,925
1937 7 — 7 #3,761
1936 8 — 8 #3,359
1930 5 — 5 #5,223