Feminine dossier · first seen 1910

Merline

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

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1924

Peak rank proxy

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Greatest Generation

1910Peak 19242024

Peak year

1924

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

1,079

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

Your name peaked in 1924, when 37 girls were named Merline.

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 1,079 Americans have been named Merline and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1910.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationGreatest Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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