Girls' name · since 1939
Merrilie
22 babies named Merrilie in U.S. Social Security records since 1939, with the highest year being 1942. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 22
- total births
- 1939–1943
- years on record
- 1940s
- peak decade
- 77%
- born in that decade
Merrilie sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 22 recorded since 1939.
Merrilie has 22 recorded births among girls since 1939, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1940s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1939 to 1943.
- 22 total births
- 1939–1943 years on record
- 1940s peak decade
- 77% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Merrilie's 22 recorded births place it above 38% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Merrilie's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Merrilie splits its recorded history at 1942: 77% of all births land in the more recent half, 23% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 1939 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1942 peak of 12 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Merrilie popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1939–1943
- Peak year (1942)
- 12
- Annual births at peak, across 5 years of records
Merrilie by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1940s was Merrilie's strongest decade.
17 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 77% of all-time use.
Merrilie births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1930s 5
1930s
5 births
- 1940s
1940s
17 births
What this shows Peak: 1940s at 17 births (77% 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, 1939–1943 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Merrilie: Baby Name Since 1939 - 22 Births, Peak 1942." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/merrilie. 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 Merrilie 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.