girls:
3.2k births since 1920
#3080 (46th percentile)
overall:
3.2k births since 1920
#4835 (38th percentile)
The name Merri is the #4,835 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,170 recorded births since 1920. This represents the 37.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 37.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,080 (46.1% percentile) for all time with 3,170 births since 1920.
Merri first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1920 (first recorded for girls in 1920). Birth data for Merri is available in 70 out of the 93 years between 1920 and 2012. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Merri reached its peak popularity in 1963, achieving the 19.7% percentile (ranked #620) with 79 births per million. The name was most common in 1963, with 79 births per million (ranked 19.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2012.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Merri".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Merri. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Merri is pronounced as MEH-ree, which has 2 syllables.
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