How Many People Are Named Merilyn?
people named Merilyn are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 289,402 people in the US has this name
Based on 2,317 babies named Merilyn in Social Security records from 1915 to 2024, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
75 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of MARILYN.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Merilyn in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Merilyn alive today is about 63 years old, and 70% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 47 and 81 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Merilyn first appears in the records in 1915 and was given most often in 1946, to 75 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2024.
Babies given the name each year, 1915 to 2024
🏆 Rank History
Merilyn has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #820, in 1935.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #820 (1935) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,086 in the 1940s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Merilyn alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Merilyn were born in California than in any other state: about 47 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Merilyn was given about 9 times as often in California.
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