Merlinda
Recorded 1931–2009 · United States
Merlinda was most popular in 1964, when 22 American babies were given the name — ranking #4,121 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 530 people named Merlinda.
Merlinda over time
How old is the name Merlinda?
Merlinda first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1931, which makes it about 94 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 52 of the 95 years since. It was last recorded in 2009.
How many people are named Merlinda?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 530 American births named Merlinda 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 448 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Merlinda in 2025?
Merlinda 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 Merlinda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Merlinda is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 530 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were 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 Merlinda?
Roughly 448 Americans named Merlinda are alive today — 85% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 60 years old, and half are between 51 and 69.
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 Merlinda 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