girls:
2.4k births since 1913
#3549 (38th percentile)
overall:
2.4k births since 1913
#5441 (30th percentile)
The name Merlene is the #5,441 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,379 recorded births since 1913. This represents the 29.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 29.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,549 (37.9% percentile) for all time with 2,379 births since 1913.
Merlene first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1913 (first recorded for girls in 1913). Birth data for Merlene is available in 66 out of the 72 years between 1913 and 1984. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Merlene reached its peak popularity in 1940, achieving the 14.8% percentile (ranked #501) with 79 births per million. The name was most common in 1940, with 79 births per million (ranked 14.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1984.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Merlene".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Merlene. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 64.9% confident that Merlene is pronounced as mer-LEEN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MER-leen, at 35.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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