Merrill
Merrill is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 6 births. Its best rank was 321st, in 1916.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 60.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1926305 births
- Best rank
- #321in 1916
- Since 1880
- 15,043people given the name
The story in the numbers
12,974 boys have been named Merrill in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1926, with 305 births.
The name has all but left use: 6 births in 2024, against 305 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1934, and the 1920s alone account for 22%. It has spent 88 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 2,069 girls have also been given it, 14% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Merrill | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 111 | |
| 1890s | 201 | |
| 1900s | 317 | |
| 1910s | 1,880 | |
| 1920s | 2,820 | |
| 1930s | 2,298 | |
| 1940s | 1,941 | |
| 1950s | 1,446 | |
| 1960s | 774 | |
| 1970s | 468 | |
| 1980s | 318 | |
| 1990s | 192 | |
| 2000s | 84 | |
| 2010s | 91 | |
| 2020s | 33 |
In 1926, its biggest year
Merrill was the 331st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1926 were Robert, John, James, William and Charles. See all of 1926.
Names that rose and fell with Merrill
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lloydpeak 1918
- Francispeak 1918
- Loydpeak 1926
- Olenpeak 1922
- Ralphpeak 1921
- Alvispeak 1924
- Bufordpeak 1921
- Virgilpeak 1921
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.