Mertie
Mertie was last recorded in 1963, when 6 babies were given it; 1,830 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mertie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mertie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #6,352, in 1963; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
46 babies in 1918, the peak
Mertie peaked in 1918, when 46 girls were given it, #1,084 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 6 | #6,352 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,576 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,433 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,180 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,463 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,961 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,105 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,118 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,496 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,171 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (77)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | 9 | #3,582 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,376 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 10 | #3,086 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,654 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 16 | #2,278 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 18 | #2,002 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 25 | #1,575 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 11 | #2,696 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 26 | #1,497 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 15 | #2,158 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 13 | #2,352 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 15 | #2,180 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 21 | #1,682 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 23 | #1,586 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 27 | #1,476 | 0.03 |
| 1931 | 22 | #1,665 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 16 | #2,174 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 23 | #1,688 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 24 | #1,718 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 31 | #1,476 | 0.03 |
| 1926 | 26 | #1,649 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 36 | #1,338 | 0.03 |
| 1924 | 23 | #1,849 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 32 | #1,449 | 0.03 |
| 1922 | 42 | #1,201 | 0.03 |
| 1921 | 38 | #1,271 | 0.03 |
| 1920 | 32 | #1,431 | 0.03 |
| 1919 | 44 | #1,116 | 0.04 |
| 1918 | 46 | #1,084 | 0.04 |
| 1917 | 41 | #1,121 | 0.04 |
| 1916 | 37 | #1,182 | 0.04 |
| 1915 | 40 | #1,068 | 0.04 |
| 1914 | 24 | #1,292 | 0.03 |
| 1913 | 18 | #1,388 | 0.03 |
| 1912 | 23 | #1,106 | 0.04 |
| 1911 | 23 | #920 | 0.05 |
| 1910 | 17 | #1,096 | 0.04 |
| 1909 | 28 | #768 | 0.08 |
| 1908 | 23 | #820 | 0.07 |
| 1907 | 18 | #916 | 0.06 |
| 1906 | 19 | #865 | 0.06 |
| 1905 | 28 | #678 | 0.10 |
| 1904 | 28 | #664 | 0.10 |
| 1903 | 18 | #828 | 0.07 |
| 1902 | 22 | #748 | 0.08 |
| 1901 | 31 | #555 | 0.13 |
| 1900 | 34 | #610 | 0.11 |
| 1899 | 23 | #658 | 0.10 |
| 1898 | 25 | #662 | 0.10 |
| 1897 | 23 | #655 | 0.10 |
| 1896 | 30 | #563 | 0.13 |
| 1895 | 33 | #518 | 0.14 |
| 1894 | 30 | #532 | 0.13 |
| 1893 | 31 | #499 | 0.15 |
| 1892 | 28 | #521 | 0.13 |
| 1891 | 24 | #534 | 0.13 |
| 1890 | 30 | #482 | 0.16 |
| 1889 | 24 | #527 | 0.13 |
| 1888 | 29 | #465 | 0.16 |
| 1887 | 36 | #362 | 0.25 |
| 1886 | 34 | #369 | 0.24 |
| 1885 | 39 | #327 | 0.29 |
| 1884 | 42 | #298 | 0.33 |
| 1883 | 36 | #293 | 0.32 |
| 1882 | 38 | #289 | 0.35 |
| 1881 | 29 | #296 | 0.32 |
| 1880 | 18 | #399 | 0.20 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mertie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mertie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 77 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mertie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mertie, and how old are they?
An estimated 146 Americans named Mertie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (8% of everyone recorded); the median is 83 years old and half are between 77 and 88. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 232 people named Mertie (227 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 232 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
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 that rose and fell in the same decades as Mertie
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 Mertie and names like it
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- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Mertie.
- The names of the Silent GenerationMost people named Mertie alive today were born 1928-1945.
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