Quick answers about Merilyn
How many people are named Merilyn?
An estimated 845 living Americans are named Merilyn.
How rare is Merilyn?
Merilyn fell below the SSA's 5-birth reporting floor in 2025. It is extremely rare as a new baby name.
How old is the typical Merilyn?
The median age of a living American named Merilyn is approximately 66 years, with most bearers falling between 30 and 78 years old.
Is Merilyn still popular?
Not especially. Merilyn has been declining since its 1946 peak and registered 0 births in 2025.
Where is Merilyn most common?
Merilyn has its strongest geographic signal in California, where it appears 6.1× more often than the national baseline.
1915Peak 19462025
Where it lives now
Merilyn is most concentrated in California — about 6.1× the national rate in the 1920s.
States where Merilyn is given more often than the national average — its present-day heartland.
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