Merna
Recorded 1895–2024 · United States
Merna was most popular in 1930, when 79 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,438 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,461 people named Merna.
Merna over time
How old is the name Merna?
Merna first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1895, which makes it about 130 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 103 of the 131 years since.
How many people are named Merna?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,461 American births named Merna between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 892 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Merna in 2025?
Merna was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Merna getting more or less popular?
Merna is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 10 births a year across 2021–2025 against 9 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Merna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Merna is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 2,461 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 100% girls and 0% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Merna?
Roughly 892 Americans named Merna are alive today — 36% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 71 years old, and half are between 26 and 83. That is a wide band, the mark of a name in steady use across generations rather than a passing fashion.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Merna is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org