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How popular is the name Merryn?
Births per year, rank history and how many Merryns are alive today.
Merryn (female) is an uncommon girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 997th in 2025 with 34 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2013, when 45 babies were given the name, the 839th most popular that year. It was almost as popular in 2021, with 44 babies given the name that year. Numbers have been falling in recent years. Merryn is one spelling of a name also recorded as Marin and Merin; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Merryn you are most likely to meet is around 5 years old. Half of all Merryns born in England and Wales are between 6 and 18, and there are at least 940 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Merryn - on average, only one in every 336 such rooms contains a Merryn.
How many babies are named Merryn each year?
Includes all spellings: Merryn, Marin, Merin. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Merryn spelling rank?
Where does the Marin spelling rank?
Where does the Merin spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Merryn most popular?
Merryn peaked in 2013, when 53 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Merryn?
At least 940 people named Merryn in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Merryn?
Most living Merryns are between 6 and 18; the most common age is about 5.
Is Merryn becoming more or less popular?
Declining: numbers have been falling in recent years.