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.

Mervel

#23,560 most common boys' name of all time · #62,112 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1922–1942

Rank among boys
#23,560
Rank overall
#62,112 of 105,966
First appeared
1922
Years on the list
5 of 146
All-time
27
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1928 #3,665
Best rank
#3,665 1928
Girls Boys peak 7/yr
1940

Mervel 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
1942 — 5 5 #3,968
1930 — 5 5 #4,436
1928 — 7 7 #3,665
1927 — 5 5 #4,691
1922 — 5 5 #4,921