Merrily is a female first name.
Recently, the name Merrily has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Merrily. That means that a girl named Merrily is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Merrily.
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Merrily are about the same as meeting someone with blue eyes in the entire country – both odds are about 25 to 30 %. More precisely, the first name Merrily is registered in 14 states, among which are California, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana or Michigan. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Merrily live in Washington, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 47,657 would turn around if you called the name Merrily across Washington.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 8.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A and S are more common for girls' names.
With seven letters, the name Merrily has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all girls' names start with an M, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the girls’ names starting with M is Mary.
If your name is Merrily and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Merrily, you can simply say:
Mouse
Elephant
Rocket
Rocket
Igloo
Lion
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Merrily
Merrily
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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L
Y
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Merrily sounds like this:
