Merrill Boy Name

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The name Merrill is of English origin, and means bright as the sea. The table below indicates the number of times the name Merrill has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Merrill**
Use of the Name Merrill for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
11,712	1,380	0	0	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Merrill has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Merrill last appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1968, the last year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Merrill**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	515	13
1881	755	7
1882	630	10
1883	391	20
1884	593	11
1885	626	10
1886
1887	534	12
1888	544	14
1889	706	9
1890	525	14
1891	579	11
1892	670	11
1893	355	26
1894	512	16
1895	387	25
1896	415	23
1897	420	21
1898	383	27
1899	350	27
1900	488	23
1901	368	26
1902	402	26
1903	349	31
1904	346	34
1905	352	35
1906	372	33
1907	393	33
1908	411	34
1909	368	42
1910	443	39
1911	375	56
1912	347	119
1913	355	137
1914	368	165
1915	326	261
1916	319	271
1917	348	256
1918	332	296
1919	338	279
1920	343	290
1921	358	283
1922	357	276
1923	359	274
1924	367	268
1925	340	291
1926	327	307
1927	348	281
1928	340	278
1929	341	269
1930	352	260
1931	342	255
1932	355	243
1933	378	207
1934	356	239
1935	398	188
1936	354	232
1937	365	221
1938	385	214
1939	371	236
1940	390	214
1941	400	211
1942	397	232
1943	396	238
1944	462	174
1945	453	171
1946	464	189
1947	481	195
1948	516	164
1949	544	150
1950	530	163
1951	559	150
1952	549	162
1953	587	150
1954	597	154
1955	600	150
1956	625	148
1957	623	151
1958	700	114
1959	760	101
1960	738	110
1961	767	102
1962	810	88
1963	783	95
1964	911	70
1965	883	70
1966	987	55
1967	920	62
1968	904	64
Totals:		11,712		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Merrill as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Merrill appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 88 times during the last 125 years.

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