Meaning not yet researched.
Merrily: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #513 in 1942.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #513 in 1942; #16,477 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Merrily in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#16,477 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1942, at #513.
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Merrily: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 girls in 2025. Peak: #513 in 1942 · most girls in one year: 210 (1942).
In 2025, 5 US girls were named Merrily, making it the 16,477th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,794 places from #14,683 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 6 girls named Merrily in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #513, reached in 1942. That year also had the most girls given the name: 210. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #1,823 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Merrily in 47 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1936 with 5 babies. In all, 1,037 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1940s, with 638 babies named Merrily.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 11 US girls were named Merrily; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 6. In 2025 that was about 1 in 321,453 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Merrilee (1,871 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Mireily, Meraly and Merely are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Mireily (23), Meraly (20), Merely (10).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Merrily in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,477 | — | — |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,683 | — | — |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,050 | — | — |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,589 | — | — |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,539 | — | — |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,635 | — | — |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,697 | — | — |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,736 | — | — |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,295 | — | — |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,819 | — | — |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,026 | — | — |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,681 | — | — |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,508 | — | — |
| 1972 | 7 | #7,019 | — | — |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,395 | — | — |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,292 | — | — |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,235 | — | — |
| 1968 | 9 | #5,023 | — | — |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,492 | — | — |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,878 | — | — |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,410 | — | — |
| 1964 | 23 | #2,643 | — | — |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,958 | — | — |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,192 | — | — |
| 1961 | 13 | #3,732 | — | — |
| 1960 | 11 | #4,087 | — | — |
| 1959 | 16 | #3,066 | — | — |
| 1958 | 15 | #3,188 | — | — |
| 1957 | 19 | #2,705 | — | — |
| 1956 | 14 | #3,273 | — | — |
| 1955 | 14 | #3,184 | — | — |
| 1954 | 22 | #2,346 | — | — |
| 1953 | 13 | #3,221 | — | — |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,882 | — | — |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,773 | — | — |
| 1950 | 28 | #1,823 | — | — |
| 1949 | 29 | #1,793 | — | — |
| 1948 | 37 | #1,538 | — | — |
| 1947 | 39 | #1,520 | — | — |
| 1946 | 66 | #1,045 | — | — |
| 1945 | 53 | #1,091 | — | — |
| 1944 | 71 | #914 | — | — |
| 1943 | 120 | #697 | — | — |
| 1942 | 210 | #513 | — | — |
| 1941 | 13 | #2,498 | — | — |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,672 | — | — |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,653 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).