Merry
Merry is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 16 births. Its best rank was 456th, in 1948.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 160.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1954355 births
- Best rank
- #456in 1948
- Since 1898
- 10,360people given the name
The story in the numbers
10,360 girls have been named Merry in the United States since 1898, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1954, with 355 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1954, and the 1950s alone account for 29%. It has spent 40 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Merry | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 5 | |
| 1900s | 30 | |
| 1910s | 209 | |
| 1920s | 495 | |
| 1930s | 661 | |
| 1940s | 2,246 | |
| 1950s | 2,972 | |
| 1960s | 1,833 | |
| 1970s | 698 | |
| 1980s | 436 | |
| 1990s | 293 | |
| 2000s | 200 | |
| 2010s | 206 | |
| 2020s | 76 |
In 1954, its biggest year
Merry was the 472nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1954 were Mary, Linda, Deborah, Patricia and Susan. See all of 1954.
Names that rose and fell with Merry
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kathleenpeak 1951
- Bonitapeak 1950
- Francinepeak 1951
- Merriepeak 1959
- Roseannpeak 1943
- Conniepeak 1955
- Francenepeak 1950
- Rosannpeak 1952
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.