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Merrie

Girls' name

Variant of Merry

Merrie has been given to 2,632 babies in the U.S. since 1909. 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 1959, with 117 recorded.

Babies named Merrie, 2004

1 in 764,000

Merrie 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Merrie: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Merry

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Merrie means

Merrie is a variant of Merry.

Origin, language, and formation

Merrie is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Merry.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,632 girls were recorded with the name Merrie between 1909 and 2004. Its highest annual count was 117 in 1959; its best national rank was #939 in 1950.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Merrie?

Merrie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2004, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2004
1 in 764,000
5 of 3,820,181 births
Among girls only
1 in 367,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2004
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
529,591 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Merrie 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 2004 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 529,591 children born in 2004 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Merrie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Merries were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Merrie was born before 1955 — so the typical Merrie is around 70 today.

Median birth year
1955
About 70 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
33.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,811
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1950s — 33.2% of all recorded uses (875).

Is Merrie 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1959 (117)
Years since peak
66
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#939
1950

Spellings of Merrie

Merrie is not the most common spelling — Marie is, with 38.9% against Merrie's 0.19%.

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 Merrie is used

Across 1910–2025, Merrie was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 138,104 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 50,000
  2. 2Washington1 in 50,000
  3. 3California1 in 100,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 100,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 100,000
  6. 6New York1 in 100,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 100,000
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 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. Merrie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Merrie around the world

Where Merrie 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.

  • England & Wales
    2014–2014
    #5,691
    in 2014
  • South Australia
    1978–1978
    #626
    in 1978

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Merrie 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
#939
1950
Peak year
1959
117 that year
First recorded
1909
Last recorded
2004
All-time count
2,632
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Merrie

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

MerlynMeridaMerariMerieMerrittMerrillMerlinAmerieAmarieMerylMeryemMeriMeraryMertieMercedezMercieMerrilyAudrieAvarieMerciEmarieMeriamEmmarieKorie

Names with a curve like Merrie

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

RegeniaDremaPameliaGwendaGayleneSheilahCheryllMickiePamellaKaranCorlissRosann

Sibling names for Merrie

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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