Merrel Popularity by Year

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

Merrel birth-count history

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Year	Category	Births	Rank	Change from previous recorded year
1955	Boys	5	#3,886	Down 172 places
1951	Boys	5	#3,714	Down 398 places
1948	Boys	6	#3,316	Up 417 places
1947	Boys	5	#3,733	Down 560 places
1946	Boys	6	#3,173	Down 177 places
1945	Boys	6	#2,996	Down 56 places
1942	Boys	7	#2,940	Down 68 places
1941	Boys	7	#2,872	Down 394 places
1940	Boys	9	#2,478	Up 635 places
1940	Girls	5	#4,349	Up 245 places
1939	Boys	6	#3,113	Up 62 places
1938	Boys	6	#3,175	Down 28 places
1936	Boys	6	#3,147	Up 105 places
1935	Boys	6	#3,252	Down 510 places
1934	Boys	8	#2,742	Down 374 places
1933	Boys	10	#2,368	Up 727 places
1931	Boys	7	#3,095	Down 115 places
1929	Boys	8	#2,980	Up 96 places
1928	Boys	8	#3,076	Up 704 places
1927	Boys	6	#3,780	Down 876 places
1926	Boys	9	#2,904	Down 149 places
1925	Boys	10	#2,755	Up 268 places
1924	Boys	9	#3,023	Up 152 places
1923	Boys	8	#3,175	Down 1,032 places
1922	Boys	15	#2,143	Up 1,726 places
1921	Boys	6	#3,869	Down 1,104 places
1920	Boys	10	#2,765	Up 112 places
1919	Boys	9	#2,877	Up 1,302 places
1918	Boys	5	#4,179	Down 1,223 places
1917	Boys	8	#2,956	Down 804 places
1917	Girls	5	#4,594	—
1916	Boys	13	#2,152	Up 469 places
1915	Boys	9	#2,621	Down 529 places
1913	Boys	8	#2,092	Down 47 places
1912	Boys	7	#2,045	Down 828 places
1908	Boys	6	#1,217	—