Merrilee
Merrilee reached its high-water mark in 1942 at number 873, and has been recorded 1,871 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2023. About 1,400 Merrilees are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 68.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Merrilee
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,871
- Estimated living today
- 1,400
- Median age today
- 68
- Peak year
- 1942
- Best rank
- 873rd
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1923
How old the living Merrilees are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,871 babies given the name since 1923, about 1,400 are alive — 75 in every hundred. Roughly 10 of them are children and 860 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1957 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Merrilee is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Merrilee is most concentrated in Washington (9.4×), Utah (4.3×), California (3.5×), Minnesota (2.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1942
The most popular girls’ names the year Merrilee peaked:
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Merrilee against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.