Merrie
Merrie is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 940th, in 1950.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1959117 births
- Best rank
- #940in 1950
- Since 1909
- 2,632people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,632 girls have been named Merrie in the United States since 1909, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1959, with 117 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 117 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1955, and the 1950s alone account for 33%. It has spent 4 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Merrie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 5 | |
| 1910s | 45 | |
| 1920s | 138 | |
| 1930s | 138 | |
| 1940s | 495 | |
| 1950s | 875 | |
| 1960s | 542 | |
| 1970s | 230 | |
| 1980s | 84 | |
| 1990s | 60 | |
| 2000s | 20 |
In 1959, its biggest year
Merrie was the 981st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1959 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Karen and Donna. See all of 1959.
Names that rose and fell with Merrie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Conniepeak 1955
- Merrypeak 1954
- Francinepeak 1951
- Pameliapeak 1954
- Regeniapeak 1948
- Lynpeak 1957
- Dremapeak 1959
- Mickiepeak 1949
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.