Merin
Meaning
a Kerala Christian coinage usually read as an elaboration of Mary; the defining girls' name of the community's 1985 to 2005 birth cohort, and its two light syllables file naturally alongside Erin and Megan in American classrooms
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Merin has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
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Popularity in Brazil
40 people · the #77,494 first name in Brazil · median age 40
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
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