Merline
Merline is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192437 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1910
- 1,079people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,079 girls have been named Merline in the United States since 1910, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1924, with 37 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 37 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1938, and the 1930s alone account for 25%.
By decade
In 1924, its biggest year
Merline was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1924 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Betty and Margaret. See all of 1924.
Names that rose and fell with Merline
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Verlinepeak 1933
- Ardithpeak 1930
- Willenepeak 1929
- Mardellpeak 1932
- Geraldinepeak 1930
- Margypeak 1929
- Ardycepeak 1936
- Verdellpeak 1932
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.