Merla Popularity by Year

Follow Merla across every available national year. Rankings and birth counts remain separated by the source dataset’s girl and boy categories.

Merla birth-count history

The chart samples long histories for faster loading. The complete table below includes every recorded year.

Year	Category	Births	Rank	Change from previous recorded year
1966	Girls	5	#6,564	Down 2,025 places
1963	Girls	9	#4,539	Up 770 places
1961	Girls	7	#5,309	Up 387 places
1960	Girls	6	#5,696	Down 1,771 places
1958	Girls	10	#3,925	Up 993 places
1957	Girls	7	#4,918	Down 757 places
1956	Girls	9	#4,161	Down 92 places
1955	Girls	9	#4,069	Down 579 places
1954	Girls	11	#3,490	Up 736 places
1953	Girls	8	#4,226	Down 1,025 places
1952	Girls	12	#3,201	Down 264 places
1951	Girls	13	#2,937	Up 298 places
1950	Girls	11	#3,235	Down 721 places
1949	Girls	16	#2,514	Up 1,691 places
1948	Girls	7	#4,205	Down 1,307 places
1947	Girls	13	#2,898	Down 416 places
1946	Girls	15	#2,482	Down 143 places
1945	Girls	14	#2,339	Up 1,348 places
1944	Girls	7	#3,687	Down 1,240 places
1943	Girls	14	#2,447	Down 136 places
1942	Girls	15	#2,311	Up 1,248 places
1941	Girls	7	#3,559	Down 351 places
1940	Girls	8	#3,208	Down 472 places
1939	Girls	10	#2,736	Down 289 places
1938	Girls	12	#2,447	Up 123 places
1937	Girls	11	#2,570	Down 307 places
1936	Girls	13	#2,263	Down 57 places
1935	Girls	14	#2,206	Up 953 places
1934	Girls	8	#3,159	Up 594 places
1933	Girls	6	#3,753	Down 1,518 places
1932	Girls	14	#2,235	Up 515 places
1931	Girls	10	#2,750	Up 305 places
1930	Girls	9	#3,055	Down 468 places
1929	Girls	12	#2,587	Up 367 places
1928	Girls	10	#2,954	Up 921 places
1927	Girls	7	#3,875	Up 976 places
1926	Girls	5	#4,851	Down 1,735 places
1925	Girls	10	#3,116	Up 277 places
1924	Girls	9	#3,393	Up 1,071 places
1921	Girls	6	#4,464	Down 213 places
1919	Girls	6	#4,251	Down 699 places
1916	Girls	7	#3,552	Up 243 places
1915	Girls	6	#3,795	Down 1,933 places
1908	Girls	6	#1,862	—