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Merryn

#5,657 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Merryn has been given to 321 babies in the U.S. since 2003. In 2025 it ranked #5,657 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 30 recorded.

Babies named Merryn, 2025

1 in 151,000

Merryn over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Merryn: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Merryn means

Merryn is a given name.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 321 girls were recorded with the name Merryn between 2003 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 30 in 2020; its best national rank was #4,510 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,510 in 2020 to #5,657 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,171 in 2015 to #5,657 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Merryn?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 151,000
22 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 73,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,657
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
104,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Merryn sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 104,451 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Merryn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Merryns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Merryn was born before 2019 — so the typical Merryn is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
47.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
321
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 47.7% of all recorded uses (153).

Is Merryn 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
+1,816
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,147
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,514
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.29×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
73.3%
Peak was 2020 (30)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,510
2020

Spellings of Merryn

Merryn is not the most common spelling — Terry is, with 36.7% against Merryn's 0.12%.

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.

Merryn around the world

Where Merryn 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 & Wales
    1996–2025
    #997
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2005–2025
    #632
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2020–2022
    #2,896
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1948–2005
    #775
    in 2005

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Merryn by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,657
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,147
Best rank ever
#4,510
2020
Peak year
2020
30 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
321
Count in 2025
22

Names similar to Merryn

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Merryn

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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