Masculine dossier · first seen 1892

Merwin

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

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1928

Peak rank proxy

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Silent Generation

1892Peak 19282024

Peak year

1928

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

1,625

Merwin 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 1928, when 64 boys were named Merwin.

No boys 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 1,625 Americans have been named Merwin and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1892.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationSilent Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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