Girls' name · since 1940
Merridy
35 babies named Merridy in U.S. Social Security records since 1940, with the highest year being 1951. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 35
- total births
- 1940–1955
- years on record
- 1950s
- peak decade
- 54%
- born in that decade
Merridy sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 35 recorded since 1940.
Merridy has 35 recorded births among girls since 1940, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1950s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1940 to 1955.
- 35 total births
- 1940–1955 years on record
- 1950s peak decade
- 54% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Merridy's 35 recorded births place it above 46% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Merridy's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Merridy splits its recorded history at 1951: 54% of all births land in the more recent half, 46% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1940 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1951 peak of 9 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Merridy popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1940–1955
- Peak year (1951)
- 9
- Annual births at peak, across 16 years of records
Merridy by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1950s was Merridy's strongest decade.
19 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 54% of all-time use.
Merridy births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1940s
1940s
16 births
- 1950s
1950s
19 births
What this shows Peak: 1950s at 19 births (54% of all-time use).
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1940–1955 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Merridy: Baby Name Since 1940 - 35 Births, Peak 1951." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/merridy. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Merridy draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.