Merna
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 14 babies a year in the US.
Merna by the numbers
Merna was given to 14 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 79 babies in 1930, so it is a 1930s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Merna
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
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Other names in the records within a letter or two of Merna. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
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