Merrily
#16,473 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Merrily has been given to 1,037 babies in the U.S. since 1936. In 2025 it ranked #16,473 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1942, with 210 recorded.
Babies named Merrily, 2025
1 in 663,000
Merrily over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Merrily?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 321,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #16,473
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Merrily sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Merrily. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Merrilys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Merrily was born before 1946 — so the typical Merrily is around 79 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1940s
- 61.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 1.5%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 387
- People you could plausibly meet
1940s — 61.5% of all recorded uses (638).
Is Merrily 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
- −1,795
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 2.4%
- Peak was 1942 (210)
- Years since peak
- 83
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 40.6% average annual change
Spellings of Merrily
Merrily is not the most common spelling — Merry is, with 32.6% against Merrily's 3.3%.
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 Merrily is used
Across 1910–2025, Merrily was most concentrated in Washington — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 236,527 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Washington1 in 50,000
- 2Illinois1 in 100,000
- 3Minnesota1 in 100,000
- 4Oregon1 in 100,000
- 5California1 in —
- 6Connecticut1 in —
- 7Indiana1 in —
- 8Michigan1 in —
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. Merrily has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Merrily around the world
Where Merrily 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 Australia1972–1972#722in 1972
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Merrily by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Merrily
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Merrily
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.