Merri

Where Merri comes from

Merri hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1848
    Merri Franquin born
    French trumpeter
  2. 1920
    First appearance
    #3,957 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1936
    Merri Dee born
    American journalist
  4. 1963
    Peak, #833
    157 babies named Merri — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1968
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,236.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Merri Franquin · French trumpeter, 1848–1934
  • Merri Dee · American journalist, 1936–2022

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.