Merilin
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Merilin is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Estonia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: a female given name of modern usage.
- EEEstonia≈1 in 1.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay1 in 83K
- CRCosta Rica1 in 170K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Estonia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 57 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈670 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a female given name of modern usage
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Merilin counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | #984 | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | listed | Merilin | 28 |
| BR Brazil | — | 375 | 1 in 565K | 468 | Merilin | 47 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈90 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Merilin | 6 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 857K | 1 | Merilin | 2 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 488K | — | Merilin | 7 |
| DO Dominican Republic | — | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 198K | — | Merilin | 9 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 41 | 1 in 83K | 41 | Merilin | 9 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 30 | 1 in 170K | 30 | Merilin | 3 |
| FI Finland | — | 26 | 1 in 214K | 140 | — | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Merilin Kiviorgb. 1973EEEstonian jurist (born 1973)
- Merilin Kottab. 1982EEEstonian philologist and translator (born 1982)
- Merilin Kirbitsb. 1986EEEstonian actress (born 1986)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 28 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 25 | #168,311 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Merilin mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name of modern usage Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Merilin a male or female name?
- Merilin is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Merilin?
- In the etymology graph, Maarja is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Merilin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 669 people named Merilin in Estonia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled merilin.
- How common is the name Merilin?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 375 people named Merilin in 2022, about 1 in 565 thousand residents.
- How common is Merilin compared with other names?
- In Estonia, Merilin is the 984th most common given name of 9,600 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Merilin?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/merilinThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Merilin” — the 984th most common given name in Estonia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.