25.0% live in New York
16.7% live in Wisconsin
8.3% live in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Oklahoma and California
If you don't like people
named merly
you should probably move to
New Hampshire (None live there).
Cool fact: Wisconsin
is the state with the most
first name merly per capita.
Check out the popularity
of the first name merly
for each state in the map below.