Feminine dossier · first seen 1913

Merlene

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Merlene
Creator: Social Security Administration

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1940

Peak rank proxy

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Silent Generation

1913Peak 19402024

Peak year

1940

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

2,379

Merlene has moved from ordinary use into the archive. Its peak belongs most strongly to the Silent Generation naming world, and its absence today gives the name the strange clarity of a cultural fossil.

Your name peaked in 1940, when 93 girls were named Merlene.

No girls were recorded with this name in 2024 — at least not five of them (the SSA's reporting floor).

Down 100% from its peak.

All told, about 2,379 Americans have been named Merlene and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1913.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationSilent Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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