Merilee
Merilee is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 196154 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1929
- 1,150people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,150 girls have been named Merilee in the United States since 1929, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1961, with 54 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 54 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1958, and the 1950s alone account for 30%.
By decade
In 1961, its biggest year
Merilee was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1961 were Mary, Lisa, Susan, Linda and Karen. See all of 1961.
Names that rose and fell with Merilee
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lynpeak 1957
- Suzannpeak 1947
- Sharolynpeak 1962
- Diannapeak 1957
- Rendapeak 1955
- Trudypeak 1947
- Francinepeak 1951
- Dremapeak 1959
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.