Mertie
Mertie is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 289th, in 1882.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191846 births
- Best rank
- #289in 1882
- Since 1880
- 1,830people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,830 girls have been named Mertie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 46 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 46 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1913, and the 1880s alone account for 18%. It has spent 31 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1918, its biggest year
Mertie was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Mertie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Bellepeak 1915
- Mintapeak 1921
- Lidapeak 1918
- Maudepeak 1888
- Lizziepeak 1919
- Minniepeak 1916
- Dociapeak 1890
- Maudpeak 1886
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.