Merlene is a first name for girls.
Recently, the name Merlene 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 Merlene. That means that a girl named Merlene 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 Merlene.
Is the name Merlene a dinosaur? We would say: It's classic! Chosen by 93 parents, the name was given most frequently in 1940 – at that time, it ranked #678. It thus experienced its last peak in a world without internet and cell phones, even before the first personal computer was built. (Do you remember? Those were those big boxes that couldn't even begin to do what a simple robot vacuum cleaner can do today). Since Merlene is both classic and fancy at the same time, people didn't always come up with the idea of giving their child this unusual name. So, if your name is Merlene, feel classic and not old-fashioned, because after all, you stand out with your name these days!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Merlene was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
If you are reading this and you know someone with the name Merlene born in 2022, please get in touch with us. Because we could not find any newborn girls with this name for the said year. Note: The official statistics only include names given at least 5 times in a year. So, if you know a Merlene born in 2022, that seems like a real fluke!
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Merlene are about the same as meeting someone with blue eyes in the entire country – both odds are about 25 to 30 %. More precisely, the first name Merlene is registered in 15 states, among which are Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida or Georgia. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Merlene live in Utah, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 34,352 would turn around if you called the name Merlene across Utah.
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 Merlene 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.
If your name is Merlene 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...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Merlene, you can simply say:
Mouse
Elephant
Rocket
Lion
Elephant
Nut
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Merlene
Merlene
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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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.
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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. Merlene sounds like this:
