About the name Merry
Merry belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Merry first appears in Social Security records in 1898. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #456 in 1948, and in 2024 16 babies received the name — 10,360 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.