Merrin
#8,184 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Merrin has been given to 264 babies in the U.S. since 1981. In 2025 it ranked #8,184 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 15 recorded.
Babies named Merrin, 2025
1 in 255,000
Merrin over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Merrin?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 255,000
- 13 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 124,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #8,184
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 176,762 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Merrin sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Merrin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Merrins were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Merrin was born before 2014 — so the typical Merrin is around 11 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 31.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 89.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 264
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 31.4% of all recorded uses (83).
Is Merrin rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- −712
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −736
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +104
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.93×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 86.7%
- Peak was 2020 (15)
- Years since peak
- 5
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.0% average annual change
Spellings of Merrin
Merrin is not the most common spelling — Erin is, with 51.1% against Merrin's 0.04%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Merrin around the world
Where Merrin ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1999–2025#4,201in 2025
- South Australia1954–1989#692in 1989
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Merrin by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Merrin
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Merrin
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.