Merton
The boy's name Merton has been in the national records since 1880, with 4,247 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 1995. About 670 Mertons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 73.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Merton
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 4,247
- Estimated living today
- 670
- Median age today
- 73
- Peak year
- 1920
- Best rank
- 493rd
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Mertons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 4,247 babies given the name since 1880, about 670 are alive — 16 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1952 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Mertons
- John Merton Aldrich (1866–1934)American entomologist
People named Merton with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Merton is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Merton is most concentrated in Maine (28.6×), Vermont (13.0×), Minnesota (6.1×), Wisconsin (4.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1920
The most popular boys’ names the year Merton peaked:
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Merton against another name
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.