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The first name 
Merelyn

Merelyn is a first name for girls.

Merelyn – a very rare name!

Recently, the name Merelyn has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Merelyn. That means that a girl named Merelyn is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Merelyn.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Merelyn

Merelyn -
once in a blue moon

Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Merelyn. Girls named Merelyn have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 2,745 Merelyn ranked higher than ever in 1936. By comparison, there have been 102 years in which the first name Merelyn has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2019. In general, parents name their daughters Merelyn only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves really special!

In years where the graph has no value, the name Merelyn was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Merelyn in 2022 – a precious jewel

In 2022, Merelyn continues to be a precious jewel: 8 newborns were named Merelyn that year, ranking #9,733 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Merelyn, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.

Merelyn -
at home in

Meeting a woman or girl named Merelyn is something really special. Out of all 50 states, women and girls named Merelyn can be found in only : . No other state currently has residents named Merelyn. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Merelyn living in one state or another (if your name is Merelyn and you live outside of , we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Merelyn is in California, as there live more women and girls with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in California, only 0.00008% of all female residents are named Merelyn – that’s just one in 1,242,743! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 12 women with that name. So, if your name is Merelyn, chances are you will never meet another woman with your beautiful first name.

Merelyn has 7 letters 
and begins with an M

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 8.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A and S are more common for girls' names.

With seven letters, the name Merelyn has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

Therefore: As 8.5% of all girls' names start with an M, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the girls’ names starting with M is Mary.

Other names with 
M, e, r, e, l, y and n

If you take all the letters in the name Merelyn – M, e, r, e, l, y and n – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Emerlyn or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Merelyn

If your name is Merelyn and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Merelyn

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Merelyn, you can simply say:

Mouse

Elephant

Rocket

Elephant

Lion

Yoyo

Nut

This is how the name Merelyn is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Merelyn in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Merelyn

Merelyn

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Merelyn

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Merelyn is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

M
E
R
E
L
Y
N

Have you ever waved the name Merelyn

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

M
E
R
E
L
Y
N

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Merelyn sounds like this: