Feminine dossier · first seen 1898

Merry

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

Endangered Down 95.5% from peak

Peak era

1954

Peak rank proxy

355

Current vitality

Rare

Generation

Boomer

1898Peak 19542024

Peak year

1954

Decline from peak

95.5%

2024

All-time

10,360

Merry once had enough force to mark a generation, but its current usage is a small remnant of that peak. The name still exists, yet now reads as a timestamp: personal, recognizable, and culturally receding.

Your name peaked in 1954, when 355 girls were named Merry.

In 2024, only 16 girls were given the name.

Down 95.5% from its peak.

All told, about 10,360 Americans have been named Merry and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1898.

Rarity score99th percentile rare

AssociationBoomer

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryDown 95.5% from peak

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