girls:
155 births since 1917
#5561 (3rd percentile)
boys:
1.2k births since 1911
#3440 (25th percentile)
overall:
1.3k births since 1911
#6424 (17th percentile)
The name Merrell is the #6,424 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,319 recorded births since 1911. This represents the 17.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 17.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,440 (24.9% percentile) for all time with 1,164 births since 1911. For girls, it ranks #5,561 (2.7% percentile) for all time with 155 births since 1917.
Merrell first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1911 (1911 for boys and 1917 for girls). Birth data for Merrell is available in 85 out of the 105 years between 1911 and 2015 (83 years for boys and 25 years for girls). 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.
The name Merrell has been given predominantly to boys, with 88.2% of all recorded births being male. In 2015, 100.0% of babies named Merrell were boys.
For boys, Merrell reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 4.4% percentile (ranked #481) with 31 births per million. The name was most common in 1915, with 31 births per million (ranked 4.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2015.
For girls, Merrell reached its peak popularity in 1927, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #596) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1927, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1985.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Merrell".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Merrell. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 80.6% confident that Merrell is pronounced as MEH-ruhl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MER-uhl, at 11.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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