Name: Merry
Gender: Female
Usage: Merry is a popular first name. It is more often used as a girl (female) name.
People having the name Merry are in general originating from Denmark, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Variants: For another variant of the name Merry across the world, see Mercy.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Merry is: Compassion, Merry.
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Numerology of the first name Merry: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 7. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: spiritual, intelligent, analytical, reserved, knowledgeable, mysterious, intuitive.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Philosophical, Spiritual
Ruling planet: Neptune
Colors: Green
Gemstones: Moonstone
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The name Merry is ranked on the 2,650th position of the most used names. It means that this name is commonly used.
We estimate that there are at least 140300 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.002% of the population. The name Merry has five characters. It means that it is relatively medium-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Merry for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
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History and Origin
As a given name, Merry may refer to:
- Merry Anders (1934–2012), American actress born Mary Helen Anderson
- Merry Clayton (born 1948), American soul and gospel singer and actress
- Gladys Geissmann (1908–1978), better known as Merry Hull, American accessory designer credited with the "finger-free" glove
- Merry Lepper, American long-distance runner acknowledged to have set a world record in the marathon in 1963
- Merry Meriadoc Brandybuck, from The Lord of the Rings
- Merry Pemberton, DC Comics character
English: originally apparently an assimilated form of Mercy. In Dickens's novel Martin Chuzzlewit (1844), Mr Pecksniff's daughters Charity and Mercy are known as Cherry and Merry. Nowadays the name is usually bestowed because of its association with the adjective denoting a cheerful and jolly temperament (cf. Happy). In the accent of the central and northern United States there is no difference in pronunciation between Merry and Mary.
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