Merrie

Girls' name · Mid-century

Living in the US: ~2,000 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank: Unranked no births recorded
Births in 2025: 0 2,632 since 1880
Typical age: 67 years, median

Merrie popularity over time

Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1909–2004. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

More children were named Merrie in 1959 than in any other year — 117 of them. 1909 is the earliest year with at least five recorded births. No births were recorded under this name in 2025; the most recent year with data is 2004.

Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Merrie?

About 2,000 people named Merrie are alive in the United States today. That is out of 2,632 recorded births since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Merrie?

Median age among living Merries: 67. More of them were born in the 1950s than in any other decade. By the site’s era rules that makes Merrie a mid-century name.

Your Merrie

Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Names similar to Merrie

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

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