Girls' name · since 1935
Merilou
Merilou has 12 recorded births since 1935 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1935 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 12
- total births
- 1935–1936
- years on record
- 1930s
- peak decade
- 100%
- born in that decade
Merilou is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 12 have been recorded since 1935.
Merilou has 12 recorded births among girls since 1935, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1930s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1935 to 1936.
- 12 total births
- 1935–1936 years on record
- 1930s peak decade
- 100% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Merilou's 12 recorded births place it above 27% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Merilou's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Merilou's SSA record in two at 1936 and the more recent half accounts for 50% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 50%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1935, with only 6 births recorded.
Merilou popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1935–1936
- Peak year (1935)
- 6
- Annual births at peak, across 2 years of records
Merilou by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1930s was Merilou's strongest decade.
12 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 100% of all-time use.
Merilou births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1930s
1930s
12 births
What this shows Peak: 1930s at 12 births (100% 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, 1935–1936 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Merilou: Baby Name Since 1935 - 12 Births, Peak 1935." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/merilou. 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 Merilou 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.