Given name
Merrie
“one who is lighthearted and joyful”·“filled with joy”
In English use, Merrie has a related form in Merry. Interpretations include “one who is lighthearted and joyful” (English) and “filled with joy” (English). These may reflect different naming traditions.
Meaning & origin
What it means
In English use, Merrie has a related form in Merry. Interpretations include “one who is lighthearted and joyful” (English) and “filled with joy” (English). These may reflect different naming traditions.
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
In English use, Merrie has a related form in Merry. An origin associated with Merry is English.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1909. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. In English use, Merrie has a related form in Merry. The history of Merry gives this family its wider story. In Dickens’s Martin Chuzzlewit, Mercy Pecksniff is called Merry. This gives the name a specific literary link with Mercy alongside its everyday association with a cheerful disposition.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Merrie through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 2,632
- 0 boys · 2,632 girls
- Most popular year
- 1959
- 117 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2004. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 117 in 1959. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,962 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Merrie’s family of names
In English usage, Merrie has a related form in Merry.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Similar names
If you love Merrie, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.
Merri
“one who is lighthearted and joyful” · “filled with joy”
>99% girls
Darsie
“a dark beauty” · “having dark features”
>99% girls
Pammie
“very strange” · “a woman who is as sweet as honey”
>99% girls
Merrilie
“one who is lighthearted and joyful” · “filled with joy”
>99% girls
Darcee
“having dark features” · “a dark beauty”
>99% girls
Geri
“one who rules with the spear” · “one who is flexible”
>99% girls
Sherli
“from the bright clearing”
>99% girls
Jerrie
“a holy man; having great strength” · “one who rules with the spear”
6% boys · 94% girls