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The record for Merlina
Merlina is recorded as a personal name, but its exact dictionary entry supplies no derivation. Popular accounts describe a feminine Merlin form, while the literary character Merlin has an older Welsh name history.
No sufficiently strong exact-form authority was established here. A blackbird, sea-fortress, or magical meaning is therefore not assigned simply from similar names.
Pronunciation & syllables
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Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
CebuanoEtymology & source
a female given name
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Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
3
eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Merlina in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Merlina
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Melina·Elaborated Mel; a Greek honey connection is documented
- Merlin·Literary form of Welsh Myrddin
- Marina♀Of the sea
- Melinda♀Created from Mel names with an inda ending
- Adelina♀Affectionate form in the Adela family; noble
- Alina♀Short form of Adelina, Albina, or other -alina names
- Avelina♀Spanish feminine of Avelino; also a Germanic diminutive
- Bettina♀Diminutive of Elizabeth-forms or Italian Benedetta
What rhymes with Merlina?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
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- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Wiktionary contributors — Merlina (Cebuano) (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.
- Wiktionary: Merlina (opens in a new tab)
Personal-name formation and etymological relationships; imported dictionary account consulted.