Meaning not yet researched.
Mervin: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 58 in 2025. Its best rank was #377 in 1920.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #377 in 1920; #2,377 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Mervin in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,377 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1920, at #377.
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Mervin: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 58 boys in 2025. Peak: #377 in 1920 · most boys in one year: 249 (1920).
In 2025, 58 US boys were named Mervin, making it the 2,377th most common boys’ name of the year, up 35 places from #2,412 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 58 boys named Mervin in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #377, reached in 1920. That year also had the most boys given the name: 249. For comparison, it was #2,512 in 2015 and #568 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mervin in 145 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 6 babies. In all, 12,360 US babies have been given the name, 0.3% of them girls and 99.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 2,241 babies named Mervin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 512 US boys were named Mervin; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 61. In 2025 that was about 1 in 29,450 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Mervin ranked highest in Wisconsin in 2025, at #556 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Mervyn are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Merv.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Mervyn (1,586).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
Mervin is listed as a nickname for Merv.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin | 9 | #556 | #833 |
| Pennsylvania | 16 | #598 | #640 |
| Ohio | 9 | #913 | #1,328 |
| Indiana | 6 | #918 | #704 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 58 | #2,377 |
| 2024 | — | — | 58 | #2,412 |
| 2023 | — | — | 61 | #2,308 |
| 2022 | — | — | 43 | #2,942 |
| 2021 | — | — | 46 | #2,763 |
| 2020 | — | — | 58 | #2,341 |
| 2019 | — | — | 40 | #3,034 |
| 2018 | — | — | 43 | #2,828 |
| 2017 | — | — | 51 | #2,520 |
| 2016 | — | — | 54 | #2,402 |
| 2015 | — | — | 50 | #2,512 |
| 2014 | — | — | 48 | #2,565 |
| 2013 | — | — | 44 | #2,696 |
| 2012 | — | — | 57 | #2,285 |
| 2011 | — | — | 45 | #2,690 |
| 2010 | — | — | 62 | #2,164 |
| 2009 | — | — | 62 | #2,177 |
| 2008 | — | — | 58 | #2,283 |
| 2007 | — | — | 53 | #2,428 |
| 2006 | — | — | 65 | #2,052 |
| 2005 | — | — | 52 | #2,287 |
| 2004 | — | — | 51 | #2,272 |
| 2003 | — | — | 56 | #2,048 |
| 2002 | — | — | 46 | #2,282 |
| 2001 | — | — | 60 | #1,858 |
| 2000 | — | — | 50 | #2,038 |
| 1999 | — | — | 50 | #1,955 |
| 1998 | — | — | 68 | #1,567 |
| 1997 | — | — | 64 | #1,593 |
| 1996 | — | — | 45 | #1,978 |
| 1995 | — | — | 48 | #1,825 |
| 1994 | — | — | 53 | #1,705 |
| 1993 | — | — | 71 | #1,376 |
| 1992 | — | — | 72 | #1,334 |
| 1991 | — | — | 71 | #1,348 |
| 1990 | — | — | 66 | #1,377 |
| 1989 | — | — | 53 | #1,542 |
| 1988 | — | — | 54 | #1,441 |
| 1987 | — | — | 59 | #1,278 |
| 1986 | — | — | 59 | #1,264 |
| 1985 | — | — | 46 | #1,467 |
| 1984 | — | — | 59 | #1,196 |
| 1983 | — | — | 51 | #1,306 |
| 1982 | — | — | 54 | #1,271 |
| 1981 | — | — | 70 | #1,092 |
| 1980 | — | — | 47 | #1,387 |
| 1979 | — | — | 57 | #1,217 |
| 1978 | — | — | 52 | #1,248 |
| 1977 | — | — | 59 | #1,134 |
| 1976 | — | — | 48 | #1,279 |
| 1975 | — | — | 61 | #1,076 |
| 1974 | — | — | 61 | #1,057 |
| 1973 | — | — | 52 | #1,143 |
| 1972 | — | — | 62 | #1,029 |
| 1971 | — | — | 63 | #1,030 |
| 1970 | — | — | 86 | #873 |
| 1969 | — | — | 81 | #854 |
| 1968 | — | — | 65 | #896 |
| 1967 | — | — | 87 | #784 |
| 1966 | — | — | 74 | #847 |
| 1965 | — | — | 90 | #783 |
| 1964 | — | — | 90 | #797 |
| 1963 | — | — | 110 | #739 |
| 1962 | — | — | 103 | #756 |
| 1961 | — | — | 112 | #728 |
| 1960 | — | — | 108 | #744 |
| 1959 | — | — | 99 | #772 |
| 1958 | — | — | 107 | #720 |
| 1957 | — | — | 119 | #699 |
| 1956 | — | — | 110 | #707 |
| 1955 | — | — | 108 | #707 |
| 1954 | — | — | 102 | #716 |
| 1953 | — | — | 122 | #646 |
| 1952 | — | — | 99 | #707 |
| 1951 | — | — | 126 | #627 |
| 1950 | — | — | 143 | #568 |
| 1949 | — | — | 122 | #617 |
| 1948 | — | — | 130 | #586 |
| 1947 | — | — | 134 | #589 |
| 1946 | — | — | 145 | #535 |
| 1945 | — | — | 105 | #596 |
| 1944 | — | — | 160 | #478 |
| 1943 | — | — | 160 | #490 |
| 1942 | — | — | 182 | #460 |
| 1941 | — | — | 173 | #449 |
| 1940 | — | — | 150 | #471 |
| 1939 | — | — | 163 | #450 |
| 1938 | — | — | 172 | #439 |
| 1937 | — | — | 192 | #408 |
| 1936 | — | — | 196 | #391 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,686 | 203 | #381 |
| 1934 | — | — | 167 | #435 |
| 1933 | — | — | 168 | #422 |
| 1932 | — | — | 201 | #395 |
| 1931 | — | — | 181 | #419 |
| 1930 | — | — | 196 | #422 |
| 1929 | — | — | 214 | #396 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,202 | 218 | #406 |
| 1927 | — | — | 221 | #404 |
| 1926 | — | — | 228 | #392 |
| 1925 | — | — | 199 | #425 |
| 1924 | — | — | 211 | #421 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,785 | 239 | #384 |
| 1922 | — | — | 221 | #406 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,900 | 216 | #414 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,845 | 249 | #377 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,698 | 210 | #402 |
| 1918 | — | — | 193 | #418 |
| 1917 | — | — | 202 | #400 |
| 1916 | — | — | 172 | #432 |
| 1915 | — | — | 163 | #422 |
| 1914 | — | — | 119 | #442 |
| 1913 | — | — | 96 | #434 |
| 1912 | — | — | 72 | #466 |
| 1911 | — | — | 38 | #478 |
| 1910 | — | — | 24 | #593 |
| 1909 | — | — | 20 | #606 |
| 1908 | — | — | 15 | #703 |
| 1907 | — | — | 21 | #530 |
| 1906 | — | — | 21 | #499 |
| 1905 | — | — | 14 | #656 |
| 1904 | — | — | 10 | #795 |
| 1903 | — | — | 8 | #891 |
| 1902 | — | — | 11 | #718 |
| 1901 | — | — | 10 | #712 |
| 1900 | — | — | 19 | #572 |
| 1899 | — | — | 8 | #838 |
| 1898 | — | — | 13 | #622 |
| 1897 | — | — | 14 | #572 |
| 1896 | — | — | 7 | #947 |
| 1895 | — | — | 14 | #571 |
| 1893 | — | — | 10 | #689 |
| 1892 | — | — | 10 | #733 |
| 1891 | — | — | 8 | #748 |
| 1890 | — | — | 10 | #653 |
| 1889 | — | — | 9 | #707 |
| 1888 | — | — | 8 | #795 |
| 1887 | — | — | 9 | #664 |
| 1886 | — | — | 8 | #738 |
| 1885 | — | — | 12 | #568 |
| 1884 | — | — | 14 | #518 |
| 1883 | — | — | 7 | #774 |
| 1882 | — | — | 6 | #914 |
| 1881 | — | — | 8 | #684 |
| 1880 | — | — | 6 | #877 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).