Merrily
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births
- Peak · girls
- 1942 · 210 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,037since 1936
Merrily over time
Rank among girls' names. Merrily has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 |
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| 2001 | #15,352 | 5 |
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| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 |
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| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 |
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| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 |
| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 |
| 1980 | — | |
| 1979 | #9,010 | 6 |
| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 |
| 1977 | — | |
| 1976 | #7,296 | 7 |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 |
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 |
| 1973 | #4,362 | 13 |
| 1972 | #6,558 | 7 |
| 1971 | #6,006 | 8 |
| 1970 | #5,061 | 10 |
| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 |
| 1968 | #4,779 | 9 |
| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 |
| 1966 | #3,740 | 12 |
| 1965 | #4,202 | 10 |
| 1964 | #2,600 | 23 |
| 1963 | #3,801 | 12 |
| 1962 | #4,011 | 11 |
| 1961 | #3,608 | 13 |
| 1960 | #3,920 | 11 |
| 1959 | #2,980 | 16 |
| 1958 | #3,085 | 15 |
| 1957 | #2,651 | 19 |
| 1956 | #3,186 | 14 |
| 1955 | #3,095 | 14 |
| 1954 | #2,295 | 22 |
| 1953 | #3,106 | 13 |
| 1952 | #2,806 | 15 |
| 1951 | #2,694 | 15 |
| 1950 | #1,794 | 28 |
| 1949 | #1,767 | 29 |
| 1948 | #1,520 | 37 |
| 1947 | #1,510 | 39 |
| 1946 | #1,042 | 66 |
| 1945 | #1,080 | 53 |
| 1944 | #909 | 71 |
| 1943 | #697 | 120 |
| 1942 | #512 | 210 |
| 1941 | #2,397 | 13 |
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| 1939 | #3,429 | 7 |
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| 1936 | #4,181 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Merrily! It came in at #4,181, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1936–1938, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Merrily is popular in 1942
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Washington#145 · 1 in 812
- Oregon#169 · 1 in 1,006
- Connecticut#289 · 1 in 3,128
- Minnesota#307 · 1 in 3,627
- New Jersey#313 · 1 in 3,568
Best ever in a state: #145 in Washington, 1942.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington | #145 | 20 | 1 in 812 |
| Oregon | #169 | 9 | 1 in 1,006 |
| Connecticut | #289 | 5 | 1 in 3,128 |
| Minnesota | #307 | 7 | 1 in 3,627 |
| New Jersey | #313 | 10 | 1 in 3,568 |
| Illinois | #320 | 21 | 1 in 3,358 |
| New York | #365 | 25 | 1 in 4,522 |
| Michigan | #373 | 11 | 1 in 5,067 |
| Ohio | #388 | 13 | 1 in 5,067 |
| Indiana | #397 | 6 | 1 in 5,327 |
| California | #411 | 17 | 1 in 4,060 |
| Pennsylvania | #428 | 13 | 1 in 6,928 |
| Missouri | #432 | 6 | 1 in 5,392 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Merrily
- 1,465 spots since 2024 (#13,477 → #14,942)
- Biggest jump: 1,885 spots in 1942 (#2,397 → #512)
- Biggest drop: 212 spots in 1944 (#697 → #909)
- Debuted 1936
- Peaked 1942 at #512 (210 births)
- Births halved by 1944, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 3 yrs · run 1942–1944
- Highest: 1 in 6,432 girls born in 1942 were named Merrily (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 321,453 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 61.5% of all girls named Merrily (638) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 12 | #3,429 (1939) | #3,805 |
| 1940s | 638 | #512 (1942) | #1,270 |
| 1950s | 171 | #1,794 (1950) | #2,769 |
| 1960s | 111 | #2,600 (1964) | #4,494 |
| 1970s | 67 | #4,362 (1973) | #7,189 |
| 1980s | 17 | #8,128 (1981) | #9,990 |
| 1990s | 5 | #13,147 (1991) | #13,147 |
| 2000s | 5 | #15,352 (2001) | #15,352 |
| 2010s | 0 | — | — |
| 2020s | 11 | #13,477 (2024) | #14,210 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Merrily in 1942
Top girls' names in 1942
More about 1942
girls
1,350,719 girls got a published name in 1942; 1 in 6,432 of them was named Merrily, which outranked 90.5% of the 5,378 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).