Meaning not yet researched.
Merry: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 9 in 2025. Its best rank was #456 in 1948.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #456 in 1948; #10,634 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Merry in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#10,634 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1948, at #456.
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Merry: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 9 girls in 2025. Peak: #456 in 1948 · most girls in one year: 355 (1954).
In 2025, 9 US girls were named Merry, making it the 10,634th most common girls’ name of the year, down 3,488 places from #7,146 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 16 girls named Merry in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #456, reached in 1948. The most girls given the name in a single year was 355, in 1954. For comparison, it was #5,606 in 2015 and #474 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Merry in 122 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1898 with 5 babies. In all, 10,369 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 2,972 babies named Merry.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 167 US girls were named Merry; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 32. In 2025 that was about 1 in 178,585 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Meredith (82,044 babies since 1880), Merri (3,170 babies since 1880), Merrie (2,632 babies since 1880) and Meri (2,502 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Merie, Meria and Meriya 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Merie (177), Meria (137), Meriya (6).
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 Merry 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 | 9 | #10,634 | — | — |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,146 | — | — |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,096 | — | — |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,187 | — | — |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,883 | — | — |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,826 | — | — |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,938 | — | — |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,428 | — | — |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,144 | — | — |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,494 | — | — |
| 2015 | 24 | #5,606 | — | — |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,921 | — | — |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,776 | — | — |
| 2012 | 18 | #7,064 | — | — |
| 2011 | 15 | #8,072 | — | — |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,110 | — | — |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,251 | — | — |
| 2008 | 23 | #6,078 | — | — |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,858 | — | — |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,525 | — | — |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,723 | — | — |
| 2004 | 30 | #4,576 | — | — |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,233 | — | — |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,593 | — | — |
| 2001 | 13 | #8,045 | — | — |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,924 | — | — |
| 1999 | 27 | #4,264 | — | — |
| 1998 | 21 | #5,071 | — | — |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,153 | — | — |
| 1996 | 32 | #3,547 | — | — |
| 1995 | 31 | #3,555 | — | — |
| 1994 | 42 | #2,865 | — | — |
| 1993 | 22 | #4,614 | — | — |
| 1992 | 22 | #4,631 | — | — |
| 1991 | 42 | #2,823 | — | — |
| 1990 | 34 | #3,269 | — | — |
| 1989 | 32 | #3,301 | — | — |
| 1988 | 34 | #3,015 | — | — |
| 1987 | 44 | #2,382 | — | — |
| 1986 | 28 | #3,242 | — | — |
| 1985 | 52 | #2,063 | — | — |
| 1984 | 42 | #2,327 | — | — |
| 1983 | 60 | #1,787 | — | — |
| 1982 | 47 | #2,174 | — | — |
| 1981 | 52 | #2,021 | — | — |
| 1980 | 45 | #2,235 | — | — |
| 1979 | 53 | #1,966 | — | — |
| 1978 | 62 | #1,699 | — | — |
| 1977 | 48 | #2,016 | — | — |
| 1976 | 47 | #1,925 | — | — |
| 1975 | 59 | #1,649 | — | — |
| 1974 | 73 | #1,408 | — | — |
| 1973 | 61 | #1,536 | — | — |
| 1972 | 69 | #1,429 | — | — |
| 1971 | 101 | #1,156 | — | — |
| 1970 | 125 | #1,005 | — | — |
| 1969 | 127 | #949 | — | — |
| 1968 | 99 | #1,064 | — | — |
| 1967 | 144 | #845 | — | — |
| 1966 | 112 | #964 | — | — |
| 1965 | 163 | #778 | — | — |
| 1964 | 221 | #693 | — | — |
| 1963 | 207 | #709 | — | — |
| 1962 | 218 | #699 | — | — |
| 1961 | 268 | #626 | — | — |
| 1960 | 274 | #603 | — | — |
| 1959 | 284 | #589 | — | — |
| 1958 | 240 | #635 | — | — |
| 1957 | 255 | #613 | — | — |
| 1956 | 297 | #543 | — | — |
| 1955 | 334 | #505 | — | — |
| 1954 | 355 | #472 | — | — |
| 1953 | 328 | #474 | — | — |
| 1952 | 323 | #470 | — | — |
| 1951 | 264 | #511 | — | — |
| 1950 | 292 | #474 | — | — |
| 1949 | 284 | #479 | — | — |
| 1948 | 307 | #456 | — | — |
| 1947 | 300 | #475 | — | — |
| 1946 | 276 | #474 | — | — |
| 1945 | 214 | #500 | — | — |
| 1944 | 202 | #508 | — | — |
| 1943 | 221 | #501 | — | — |
| 1942 | 200 | #526 | — | — |
| 1941 | 118 | #653 | — | — |
| 1940 | 124 | #634 | — | — |
| 1939 | 103 | #670 | — | — |
| 1938 | 96 | #704 | — | — |
| 1937 | 88 | #722 | — | — |
| 1936 | 55 | #928 | — | — |
| 1935 | 65 | #859 | — | — |
| 1934 | 67 | #838 | — | — |
| 1933 | 53 | #944 | — | — |
| 1932 | 52 | #986 | — | — |
| 1931 | 42 | #1,100 | — | — |
| 1930 | 40 | #1,191 | — | — |
| 1929 | 34 | #1,301 | — | — |
| 1928 | 45 | #1,145 | — | — |
| 1927 | 40 | #1,251 | — | — |
| 1926 | 44 | #1,162 | — | — |
| 1925 | 47 | #1,132 | — | — |
| 1924 | 48 | #1,135 | — | — |
| 1923 | 65 | #911 | — | — |
| 1922 | 54 | #1,027 | — | — |
| 1921 | 57 | #998 | — | — |
| 1920 | 61 | #936 | — | — |
| 1919 | 48 | #1,049 | — | — |
| 1918 | 29 | #1,483 | — | — |
| 1917 | 34 | #1,253 | — | — |
| 1916 | 22 | #1,663 | — | — |
| 1915 | 18 | #1,855 | — | — |
| 1914 | 17 | #1,643 | — | — |
| 1913 | 13 | #1,732 | — | — |
| 1912 | 16 | #1,400 | — | — |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,381 | — | — |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,320 | — | — |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,704 | — | — |
| 1908 | 6 | #2,027 | — | — |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,134 | — | — |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,139 | — | — |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,795 | — | — |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,872 | — | — |
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).