Merilee
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Merilee is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script.
- USUnited States1 in 322K◐
- TCTurks & Caicos Islands1 in 13K
- CACanada1 in 243K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.0K ●
- Sources
- 195 ●
- 1 in 322K ◐
across 2 countries
13K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1,033 | 11K rec. | 1 in 322K | 1K | Merilee | 195 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 472 | 466 rec. | — | — | Merilee | 19 |
| CA Canada | — | 343 | 338 rec. | — | — | Merilee | 30 |
| AU Australia | — | 255 | 238 rec. | — | 1 | Merilee | 28 |
| PH Philippines | — | 70 | 55 rec. | — | — | Merilee | 8 |
| AR Argentina | — | 44 | 38 rec. | — | — | Merilee | 5 |
| IT Italy | — | 37 | 39 rec. | — | — | Merilee | 2 |
| TC Turks & Caicos Islands | #116 | 32 | 107 rec. | — | — | Merilee | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | 26 | 25 rec. | — | — | Merilee | 8 |
| BR Brazil | — | 26 | 25 rec. | — | — | Merilee | 2 |
| DE Germany | — | 23 | 21 rec. | — | — | Merilee | 12 |
| MX Mexico | — | 23 | 21 rec. | — | — | Merilee | 3 |
Roughly 1K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 322K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English12K86%
- Spanish4523%
- 4393%
- Portuguese881%
- German851%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 12,157 | 86% |
| Spanish | 452 | 3% |
| 439 | 3% | |
| Portuguese | 88 | 1% |
| German | 85 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1929 | 6 |
| 1930 | 7 |
| 1936 | 7 |
| 1937 | 9 |
| 1939 | 5 |
| 1940 | 12 |
| 1942 | 37 |
| 1943 | 22 |
| 1944 | 22 |
| 1945 | 16 |
| 1946 | 36 |
| 1947 | 31 |
| 1948 | 39 |
| 1949 | 37 |
| 1950 | 31 |
| 1951 | 34 |
| 1952 | 28 |
| 1953 | 38 |
| 1954 | 38 |
| 1955 | 37 |
| 1956 | 32 |
| 1957 | 45 |
| 1958 | 36 |
| 1959 | 21 |
| 1960 | 26 |
| 1961 | 54 |
| 1962 | 36 |
| 1963 | 25 |
| 1964 | 24 |
| 1965 | 24 |
| 1966 | 21 |
| 1967 | 12 |
| 1968 | 11 |
| 1969 | 21 |
| 1970 | 22 |
| 1971 | 22 |
| 1972 | 21 |
| 1973 | 16 |
| 1974 | 15 |
| 1975 | 18 |
| 1976 | 6 |
| 1977 | 15 |
| 1978 | 18 |
| 1979 | 16 |
| 1980 | 17 |
| 1981 | 13 |
| 1982 | 15 |
| 1983 | 7 |
| 1984 | 10 |
| 1985 | 8 |
| 1987 | 5 |
| 1988 | 5 |
| 1989 | 11 |
| 1998 | 5 |
| 2014 | 5 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 55 years between 1929–2014. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Merilee Serrill Grindleb. 1945American political scientist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 8 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1K | #12,143 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1961 | 54 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1957 | 45 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1948 | 39 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1954 | 38 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1953 | 38 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1955 | 37 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1949 | 37 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1942 | 37 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1962 | 36 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1958 | 36 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1946 | 36 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 65 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Merilee?
- We estimate roughly 1.0 thousand people bear Merilee (counting its spellings and scripts) across 2 countries in our records.
- In which country does Merilee have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 1.0 thousand people bear Merilee in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled merilee.
- How common is Merilee compared with other names?
- In Turks & Caicos Islands, Merilee is the 116th most common given name of 789 given names recorded there.
- Is Merilee a male or female name?
- Merilee is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
Query this name via API
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Merilee” — the 116th most common given name in Turks & Caicos Islands. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.