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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Merry

Recorded for girlsBaby Boomer

2025 rank

#10,634

down −3,488 places

2025 births

9

down −7 births

All-time births

10,369

0% of them in 2025

More common than

98%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1954
355 births
Best rank
#456
in 1948
First recorded
1898
#1,872 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1957
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
122 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 1954355#472Peak
  2. 1955334#505
  3. 1953328#474
  4. 1952323#470
  5. 1948307#456

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #456 in 1948 · peak births 355 in 1954

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Merry has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.

The boys' series

No boys have been recorded with this name.

Stated, not plotted as zero — the split bar and the unisex badge are omitted rather than drawn empty.