Mery
Mery was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,686 among girls’ names; 511 Americans have been recorded with it since 1925 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mery by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mery?
#8,686 among girls’ names, 2025
Mery rose from #12,625 in 2015 to #8,686 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 4.5 to 7.5 per million.
15 babies in 2023, the peak
Mery peaked in 2023, when 15 girls were given it, #7,518 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 80% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,686 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,777 | 7.4 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,518 | 9.3 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,935 | 5.5 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,822 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,263 | 8.0 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,339 | 4.2 |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,122 | 4.7 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,157 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,480 | 5.1 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #12,625 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,946 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,775 | 4.6 |
| 2012 | 8 | #13,041 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,933 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,710 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,557 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,889 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,703 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,253 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,078 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,178 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,789 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,684 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,688 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,827 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,961 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,652 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,894 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,319 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,563 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,952 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,845 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,525 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,355 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,802 | 3.3 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,917 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,775 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,195 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,173 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,531 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,355 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,733 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,287 | 3.1 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,090 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,832 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,439 | 6.9 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,890 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,089 | 4.2 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,654 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,162 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 9 | #5,023 | 5.5 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,844 | 4.2 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,189 | 2.8 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,353 | 3.1 |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,158 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,389 | 3.5 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,877 | 3.0 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,577 | 2.5 |
| 1952 | 9 | #4,021 | 4.9 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,671 | 6.4 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,345 | 7.5 |
| 1936 | 6 | #4,008 | 5.8 |
| 1928 | 7 | #4,049 | 6.1 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,528 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mery a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mery has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 65 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mery: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mery, and how old are they?
An estimated 467 Americans named Mery and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 12 and 43. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,861 people named Mery (2,818 women and girls, 43 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 412 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Mery rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
How common is the spelling Mery?
Mery is a less common spelling of Merry: SSA has recorded 511 Mery and 10,369 Merry since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 25,260 babies since 1880, Mery is the eighth most given (2.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 439 babies (2.7%), the fifth 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 Mery
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 Mery and names like it
- Compare Mery and MerryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Mery.
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