Merilee
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɝɪliː/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Merilee is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Turks & Caicos Islands it is the 82nd most common given name.
- USUnited States1 in 322K(measured from records)
- TCTurks & Caicos Islands≈1 in 10K
- CACanada≈1 in 192K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 222 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
1,034 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Turks & Caicos Islands, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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(measured from records)
Merilee counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1,034 | 1 in 322K | 1K | Merilee | 222 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 192K | — | Merilee | 37 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 366K | — | Merilee | 26 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈82 est. | ≈1 in 310K | 1 | Merilee | 31 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈78 est. | ≈1 in 798K | — | Merilee | 2 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 250K | — | Merilee | 2 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 244K | — | Merilee | 8 |
| TC Turks & Caicos Islands | #82 | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Merilee | 1 |
1,034 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Merilee?
- A machine transcription gives /mɝɪliː/ (IPA) for English.
- 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.
- In which country does Merilee have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Merilee, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled merilee.
- How common is the name Merilee?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,034 people named Merilee in 2020, about 1 in 322 thousand residents.
- How common is Merilee compared with other names?
- In Turks & Caicos Islands, Merilee is the 82nd most common given name of 1,146 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Merilee?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/merileeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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 82nd most common given name in Turks & Caicos Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.