Merton
Merton is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 333rd, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1920150 births
- Best rank
- #333in 1880
- Since 1880
- 4,247people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,247 boys have been named Merton in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 150 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 150 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1926, and the 1920s alone account for 31%. It has spent 62 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Merton | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 158 | |
| 1890s | 128 | |
| 1900s | 145 | |
| 1910s | 821 | |
| 1920s | 1,311 | |
| 1930s | 761 | |
| 1940s | 428 | |
| 1950s | 239 | |
| 1960s | 135 | |
| 1970s | 84 | |
| 1980s | 27 | |
| 1990s | 10 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Merton was the 494th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1920 were John, William, Robert, James and Charles. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Merton
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Willispeak 1924
- Wilberpeak 1919
- Evertpeak 1923
- Delospeak 1923
- Bertrampeak 1923
- Cloydpeak 1918
- Harmonpeak 1921
- Lymanpeak 1917
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.