Merrily was the #14,942 girls' name in the US in 2025 (5 babies).
Merrily as a girl’s name
US
Babies per 1,000 of the same sex in each published list.Official rank; #1 at the top. Breaks in a line are years with too few babies to be published.Show the numbers
Year
US
2025
#14,942 (5)
2024
#13,477 (6)
2001
#15,352 (5)
1991
#13,147 (5)
1987
#11,325 (5)
1982
#10,517 (5)
1981
#8,128 (7)
1979
#9,010 (6)
1978
#8,562 (6)
1976
#7,296 (7)
1975
#9,067 (5)
1974
#8,775 (5)
1973
#4,362 (13)
1972
#6,558 (7)
1971
#6,006 (8)
The tide so far
Peaked in the US in 1942 at #512.
First recorded in the US in 1936.
How common is it?
about 1 in 330,000 baby girls in the published US list for 2025.
In a group of 1,000 children born that year, you would expect to meet fewer than 1. How we work this out.