Quick answers about Mervyn
How many people are named Mervyn?
An estimated 449 living Americans are named Mervyn.
How rare is Mervyn?
Mervyn 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 Mervyn?
The median age of a living American named Mervyn is approximately 62 years, with most bearers falling between 45 and 76 years old.
Is Mervyn still popular?
Not especially. Mervyn has been declining since its 1937 peak and registered 0 births in 2025.
Where is Mervyn most common?
Mervyn has its strongest geographic signal in California, where it appears 15.2× more often than the national baseline.
1905Peak 19372025
Where it lives now
Mervyn is most concentrated in California — about 5.7× the national rate in the 1930s.
States where Mervyn is given more often than the national average — its present-day heartland.
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