Girls' name · since 1932
Merelene
22 babies named Merelene in U.S. Social Security records since 1932, with the highest year being 1940. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 22
- total births
- 1932–1943
- years on record
- 1940s
- peak decade
- 55%
- born in that decade
Merelene sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 22 recorded since 1932.
Merelene has 22 recorded births among girls since 1932, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1940s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1932 to 1943.
- 22 total births
- 1932–1943 years on record
- 1940s peak decade
- 55% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Merelene's 22 recorded births place it above 38% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Merelene's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Merelene splits its recorded history at 1940: 55% of all births land in the more recent half, 45% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1932 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1940 peak of 7 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Merelene popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1932–1943
- Peak year (1940)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 12 years of records
Merelene by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1940s was Merelene's strongest decade.
12 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 55% of all-time use.
Merelene births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1930s
1930s
10 births
- 1940s
1940s
12 births
What this shows Peak: 1940s at 12 births (55% of all-time use).
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1932–1943 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Merelene: Baby Name Since 1932 - 22 Births, Peak 1940." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/merelene. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Merelene draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.