How Many People Are Named Merilee?
people named Merilee are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 374,353 people in the US has this name
Based on 1,150 babies named Merilee in Social Security records from 1929 to 2014, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
54 births
Trend
Last year given
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Merilee in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Merilee alive today is about 63 years old, and 65% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 54 and 73 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Merilee first appears in the records in 1929 and was given most often in 1961, to 54 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2014.
Babies given the name each year, 1929 to 2014
🏆 Rank History
Merilee has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #1,340, in 1942.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #1,340 (1942) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,786 in the 1950s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Merilee alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Merilee were born in California than in any other state: about 83 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Merilee was given about 8.1 times as often in California.
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