Merelyn
Merelyn was last recorded in 2024, when 8 babies were given it; 324 Americans have been recorded with it between 1924 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Merelyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Merelyn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,793, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
18 babies in 2007, the peak
Merelyn peaked in 2007, when 18 girls were given it, #7,303 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8 | #11,793 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,337 | 8.1 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,884 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,867 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,710 | 3.1 |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,032 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,575 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,710 | 7.3 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,629 | 5.6 |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,077 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 11 | #10,015 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,512 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,534 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 8 | #13,074 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,572 | 3.3 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,555 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,303 | 9.4 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,383 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,989 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,417 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,875 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,797 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,982 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,387 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,011 | 2.8 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,888 | 3.4 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,683 | 3.9 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,492 | 4.1 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,798 | 3.8 |
| 1945 | 5 | #5,022 | 3.8 |
| 1944 | 5 | #5,045 | 3.8 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,453 | 6.6 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,737 | 6.1 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,714 | 4.6 |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,116 | 5.6 |
| 1936 | 8 | #3,291 | 7.7 |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,140 | 5.7 |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,249 | 5.6 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,405 | 7.5 |
| 1930 | 5 | #5,027 | 4.4 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,359 | 4.2 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,374 | 4.2 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,856 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Merelyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Merelyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Merelyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Merelyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 252 Americans named Merelyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (78% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 11 and 24. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 335 people named Merelyn (329 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 231 born in the U.S. The Census count is 45% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 3,600 babies since 1880, Merelyn is the third most given (9.0% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
More about Merelyn and names like it
- Compare Merelyn and MerilynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMerelyn peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Merelyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Merelyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Merelyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.