Merary
Merary was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,884 among girls’ names; 532 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Merary by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Merary?
#9,884 among girls’ names, 2025
Merary fell from #7,170 in 2015 to #9,884 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 9.5 to 6.2 per million.
34 babies in 2008, the peak
Merary peaked in 2008, when 34 girls were given it, #4,519 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,884 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 7 | #13,011 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,584 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,445 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 10 | #10,064 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,431 | 14.2 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,931 | 7.1 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,311 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,315 | 9.3 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,241 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 17 | #7,170 | 9.5 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,901 | 10.1 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,424 | 8.0 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,527 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 15 | #8,065 | 8.5 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,734 | 13.5 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,471 | 11.4 |
| 2008 | 34 | #4,519 | 18.0 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,302 | 9.4 |
| 2006 | 24 | #5,656 | 12.6 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,716 | 11.9 |
| 2004 | 30 | #4,571 | 16.3 |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,964 | 10.9 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,311 | 8.3 |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,115 | 12.8 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,431 | 7.7 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,547 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,386 | 7.4 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,451 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,930 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,858 | 9.1 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,217 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,113 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,767 | 5.9 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,741 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Merary a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Merary has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Merary: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Merary, and how old are they?
An estimated 527 Americans named Merary and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 11 and 24. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 775 people named Merary (748 women and girls, 27 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 467 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 19,331 babies since 1880, Merary is the seventh most given (2.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 124 babies (8.1%), the sixth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Merary
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Merary and names like it
- Compare Merary and MerryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMerary peaked in 2008.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Merary since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Merary.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Merary alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.