girls:
5 births since 1916
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
1.6k births since 1905
#3087 (33rd percentile)
overall:
1.6k births since 1905
#6161 (20th percentile)
The name Mervyn is the #6,161 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,585 recorded births since 1905. This represents the 20.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 20.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,087 (32.6% percentile) for all time with 1,580 births since 1905. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1916.
Mervyn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1905 (1905 for boys and 1916 for girls). Birth data for Mervyn is available in 82 out of the 112 years between 1905 and 2016 (82 years for boys and 1 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 Mervyn has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Mervyn reached its peak popularity in 1937, achieving the 9.6% percentile (ranked #474) with 50 births per million. The name was most common in 1935, with 50 births per million (ranked 9.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2016.
For girls, Mervyn reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #573) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1916, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1916.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mervyn".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Mervyn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Mervyn is pronounced as MER-vihn, which has 2 syllables.
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