Merrilee

Where Merrilee comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Merrilee.

  • Vowel-ended
Merrilee through the years
  1. 1923
    First appearance
    #3,971 among girls with 7 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1942
    Peak, #873
    78 babies named Merrilee, the most in any year.
  3. 1944
    Merrilee Rush born
    American singer
  4. 1962
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #2,031.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Merrilee Fullerton · Canadian physician and politician
  • Merrilee Rush · American singer, born 1944

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.