Merima
Merima is a female forename which has separate Habesha and Slavic origins.
Meaning & Origin of Merima
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Merima is a female forename which has separate Habesha and Slavic origins.
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The Story of Merima
Merima first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1997, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1999: 7 births, good for #11,386 nationwide. About 71% of every Merima on record arrived during the 1990s, its defining decade. Merima last appeared in the published SSA data in 2001, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 17 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1990s to the 2020s.
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About the name Merima
Merima is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1997 and has accumulated 17 births in the dataset. Merima's peak popularity came in 1999 when it ranked #11,386. Use the chart and map above to compare Merima's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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