Merikay
Merikay was last recorded in 1949, when 7 babies were given it; 84 Americans have been recorded with it between 1941 and 1949 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Merikay by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Merikay?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #4,532, in 1949; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
42 babies in 1946, the peak
Merikay peaked in 1946, when 42 girls were given it, #1,351 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | 7 | #4,532 | 4.1 |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,101 | 4.7 |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,728 | 8.5 |
| 1946 | 42 | #1,351 | 26.7 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,385 | 4.5 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,273 | 5.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Merikay a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Merikay has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 6 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Merikay: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Merikay, and how old are they?
An estimated 52 Americans named Merikay and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 100 people named Merikay (100 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 62 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 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
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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Merikay
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1940-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Merrily | 1,037 |
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.