Merrie

Where Merrie comes from

The dictionaries list Merrie as a given name — a female given name, variant of Merry — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1909
    First appearance
    #2,208 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1950
    Peak, #937
    91 babies named Merrie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1966
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,736.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name, variant of Merry.
Namesakes

No widely known Merrie turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

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.