Feminine dossier · first seen 1909

Merrie

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Merrie
Creator: Social Security Administration

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1959

Peak rank proxy

117

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Boomer

1909Peak 19592024

Peak year

1959

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

2,632

Merrie has moved from ordinary use into the archive. Its peak belongs most strongly to the Boomer naming world, and its absence today gives the name the strange clarity of a cultural fossil.

Your name peaked in 1959, when 117 girls were named Merrie.

No girls were recorded with this name in 2024 — at least not five of them (the SSA's reporting floor).

Down 100% from its peak.

All told, about 2,632 Americans have been named Merrie and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1909.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationBoomer

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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