Meaning not yet researched.
Merari: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 10 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,546 in 2004.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,546 in 2004; #9,886 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Merari in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,886 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2004, at #2,546.
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Merari: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 10 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,546 in 2004 · most girls in one year: 66 (2004).
In 2025, 10 US girls were named Merari, making it the 9,886th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,607 places from #8,279 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 13 girls named Merari in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,546, reached in 2004. That year also had the most girls given the name: 66. For comparison, it was #5,779 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Merari in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1953 with 5 babies. In all, 1,370 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 1.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 526 babies named Merari.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 184 US girls were named Merari; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 27. In 2025 that was about 1 in 160,727 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Merary and Mirari are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Merary (532), Mirari (62).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Merari in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,886 | — | — |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,279 | — | — |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,888 | — | — |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,263 | — | — |
| 2021 | 10 | #10,068 | — | — |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,601 | — | — |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,260 | — | — |
| 2018 | 27 | #4,961 | 5 | #13,470 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,740 | — | — |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,338 | — | — |
| 2015 | 23 | #5,779 | — | — |
| 2014 | 28 | #4,987 | — | — |
| 2013 | 37 | #4,060 | — | — |
| 2012 | 36 | #4,187 | 5 | #13,551 |
| 2011 | 35 | #4,213 | 5 | #13,653 |
| 2010 | 50 | #3,290 | — | — |
| 2009 | 51 | #3,282 | — | — |
| 2008 | 52 | #3,249 | — | — |
| 2007 | 61 | #2,953 | — | — |
| 2006 | 51 | #3,250 | — | — |
| 2005 | 54 | #2,992 | — | — |
| 2004 | 66 | #2,546 | — | — |
| 2003 | 37 | #3,788 | — | — |
| 2002 | 60 | #2,600 | — | — |
| 2001 | 47 | #3,032 | — | — |
| 2000 | 47 | #3,005 | — | — |
| 1999 | 36 | #3,480 | — | — |
| 1998 | 28 | #4,102 | — | — |
| 1997 | 27 | #4,088 | 6 | #8,899 |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,408 | — | — |
| 1995 | 26 | #4,060 | — | — |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,964 | — | — |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,198 | — | — |
| 1992 | 26 | #4,049 | — | — |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,435 | — | — |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,630 | — | — |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,460 | — | — |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,533 | — | — |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,150 | — | — |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,120 | — | — |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,757 | — | — |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,685 | — | — |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,660 | — | — |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,097 | — | — |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,214 | — | — |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,752 | — | — |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,452 | — | — |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,386 | — | — |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,679 | — | — |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,881 | — | — |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,841 | — | — |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,226 | — | — |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,247 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).