Mervin
Mervin is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 58 births. Its best rank was 377th, in 1920.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 580.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1920249 births
- Best rank
- #377in 1920
- Since 1880
- 12,259people given the name
The story in the numbers
12,259 boys have been named Mervin in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 249 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1942, and the 1920s alone account for 18%. It has spent 90 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Mervin | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 87 | |
| 1890s | 94 | |
| 1900s | 149 | |
| 1910s | 1,289 | |
| 1920s | 2,216 | |
| 1930s | 1,839 | |
| 1940s | 1,461 | |
| 1950s | 1,135 | |
| 1960s | 920 | |
| 1970s | 601 | |
| 1980s | 551 | |
| 1990s | 607 | |
| 2000s | 552 | |
| 2010s | 493 | |
| 2020s | 265 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Mervin was the 377th 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 Mervin
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Delbertpeak 1932
- Rolandpeak 1924
- Elroypeak 1922
- Bernardpeak 1924
- Vernonpeak 1920
- Arnoldpeak 1924
- Alvinpeak 1927
- Elvinpeak 1927
Other spellings in the data
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.