Merrill — #10891 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Merrill

The Social Security Administration has registered 12,974 babies named Merrill between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Merrill currently holds the #10891 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1926, when 305 babies received it in a single year. Merrill is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 2,069 additional births since 1905.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Merrill performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 2,820 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Merrill shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Pennsylvania, which accounts for 884 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Indiana and Iowa. In total, SSA state-level files list Merrill in 38 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Merrill in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 12,974 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.