Meritt
The Story of Meritt
As a girl name
Meritt first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a girl name in 1997, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 2016: 10 births, good for #10,109 nationwide. About 62% of every Meritt on record arrived during the 2010s, its defining decade. Meritt last appeared in the published SSA data in 2024, with 6 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 78 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1990s to the 2020s.
As a boy name
Meritt first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a boy name in 1920, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 2018: 7 births, good for #9,668 nationwide. About 42% of every Meritt on record arrived during the 2010s, its defining decade. Meritt last appeared in the published SSA data in 2024, with 7 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 55 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1920s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
Popularity by State
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About the name Meritt
Meritt is a unisex baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1997 and has accumulated 78 births in the dataset. Meritt's peak popularity came in 2016 when it ranked #10,109. Use the chart and map above to compare Meritt'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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