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Merri

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Merri has been given to 3,170 babies in the U.S. since 1920. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1963, with 157 recorded.

Babies named Merri, 2012

1 in 732,000

Merri over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Merri: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Merri means

Merri is a given name.

The naming story behind Merri

Wikidata records Merri as a unisex given name. The entity identifier is Q67591454, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,170 girls were recorded with the name Merri between 1920 and 2012. Its highest annual count was 157 in 1963; its best national rank was #834 in 1963.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Merri?

Merri had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2012
1 in 732,000
5 of 3,657,590 births
Among girls only
1 in 352,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2012
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
507,051 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Merri sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2012 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 507,051 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Merri. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Merris were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Merri was born before 1962 — so the typical Merri is around 63 today.

Median birth year
1962
About 63 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
36.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,891
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 36.3% of all recorded uses (1,150).

Is Merri rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1963 (157)
Years since peak
62
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#834
1963

Spellings of Merri

Merri is not the most common spelling — Terri is, with 18.7% against Merri's 0.40%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Merri is used

Across 1910–2025, Merri was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 105,874 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 50,000
  2. 2Washington1 in 50,000
  3. 3Alabama1 in 100,000
  4. 4California1 in 100,000
  5. 5Colorado1 in 100,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 100,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in 100,000
  8. 8Iowa1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Merri has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Merri around the world

Where Merri ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1947–1987
    #684
    in 1987

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Merri

People whose public names include Merri, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Merri in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Merri. Linked forms have their own page here.

MeriMarriMerry

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Merri by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#834
1963
Peak year
1963
157 that year
First recorded
1920
Last recorded
2012
All-time count
3,170
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Merri

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Merri

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Merri, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

CathiLiseBeckieTariTrudiNildaRoxaneDelindaDebbiMigdaliaDorindaLeesa

Sibling names for Merri

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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