Merrie
Recorded 1909–2004 · United States
Merrie was most popular in 1959, when 117 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,643 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,632 people named Merrie.
Merrie over time
How old is the name Merrie?
Merrie first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1909, which makes it about 116 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 85 of the 117 years since. It was last recorded in 2004.
How many people are named Merrie?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,632 American births named Merrie between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 1,917 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Merrie in 2025?
Merrie was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Merrie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Merrie is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 2,632 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Merrie?
Roughly 1,917 Americans named Merrie are alive today — 73% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 67 years old, and half are between 59 and 74.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Merrie is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org