Merrily

Where Merrily comes from

Merrily hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1936
    First appearance
    #4,181 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1942
    Peak, #512
    210 babies named Merrily — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1944
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #909.
  4. 1951
    Merrily Stratten born
    Canadian swimmer
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Merrily Stratten · Canadian swimmer, born 1951

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.