Meaning not yet researched.
Meri: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 9 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,161 in 1955.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,161 in 1955; #10,632 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Meri in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#10,632 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1955, at #1,161.
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Meri: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 9 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,161 in 1955 · most girls in one year: 89 (1961).
In 2025, 9 US girls were named Meri, making it the 10,632nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,352 places from #8,280 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 13 girls named Meri in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,161, reached in 1955. The most girls given the name in a single year was 89, in 1961. For comparison, it was #12,628 in 2015 and #1,390 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Meri in 93 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1917 with 5 babies. In all, 2,502 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 644 babies named Meri.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 103 US girls were named Meri; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 14. In 2025 that was about 1 in 178,585 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Mari (16,645 babies since 1880), Merri (3,170 babies since 1880), Merry (10,369 babies since 1880) and Merrie (2,632 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Meriah and Mirio 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Finnish and Slovene. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Meriah (910), Mirio (12).
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 Meri 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 | 9 | #10,632 | — | — |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,280 | — | — |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,343 | — | — |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,131 | — | — |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,892 | — | — |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,787 | — | — |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,237 | — | — |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,607 | — | — |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,582 | — | — |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,714 | — | — |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,628 | — | — |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,707 | — | — |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,148 | — | — |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,689 | — | — |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,980 | — | — |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,927 | — | — |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,714 | — | — |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,876 | — | — |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,856 | — | — |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,163 | — | — |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,199 | — | — |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,698 | — | — |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,487 | — | — |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,591 | — | — |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,602 | — | — |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,923 | — | — |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,254 | — | — |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,273 | — | — |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,707 | — | — |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,206 | — | — |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,307 | — | — |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,435 | — | — |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,872 | — | — |
| 1992 | 20 | #4,977 | — | — |
| 1991 | 26 | #4,013 | — | — |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,738 | — | — |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,738 | — | — |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,797 | — | — |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,617 | — | — |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,472 | — | — |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,785 | — | — |
| 1984 | 22 | #3,680 | — | — |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,902 | — | — |
| 1982 | 20 | #3,973 | — | — |
| 1981 | 27 | #3,208 | — | — |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,445 | — | — |
| 1979 | 32 | #2,773 | — | — |
| 1978 | 23 | #3,346 | — | — |
| 1977 | 28 | #2,886 | — | — |
| 1976 | 36 | #2,324 | — | — |
| 1975 | 33 | #2,442 | — | — |
| 1974 | 36 | #2,239 | — | — |
| 1973 | 47 | #1,818 | — | — |
| 1972 | 40 | #2,012 | — | — |
| 1971 | 44 | #1,954 | — | — |
| 1970 | 60 | #1,591 | — | — |
| 1969 | 45 | #1,863 | — | — |
| 1968 | 44 | #1,800 | — | — |
| 1967 | 59 | #1,451 | — | — |
| 1966 | 51 | #1,582 | — | — |
| 1965 | 62 | #1,401 | — | — |
| 1964 | 63 | #1,431 | — | — |
| 1963 | 77 | #1,258 | — | — |
| 1962 | 76 | #1,271 | — | — |
| 1961 | 89 | #1,172 | — | — |
| 1960 | 78 | #1,244 | — | — |
| 1959 | 74 | #1,253 | — | — |
| 1958 | 43 | #1,645 | — | — |
| 1957 | 51 | #1,503 | — | — |
| 1956 | 59 | #1,358 | — | — |
| 1955 | 74 | #1,161 | — | — |
| 1954 | 56 | #1,339 | — | — |
| 1953 | 62 | #1,236 | — | — |
| 1952 | 42 | #1,498 | — | — |
| 1951 | 38 | #1,547 | — | — |
| 1950 | 44 | #1,390 | — | — |
| 1949 | 46 | #1,364 | — | — |
| 1948 | 38 | #1,511 | — | — |
| 1947 | 42 | #1,452 | — | — |
| 1946 | 48 | #1,252 | — | — |
| 1945 | 31 | #1,472 | — | — |
| 1944 | 20 | #1,950 | — | — |
| 1943 | 22 | #1,880 | — | — |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,354 | — | — |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,172 | — | — |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,709 | — | — |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,762 | — | — |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,872 | — | — |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,310 | — | — |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,783 | — | — |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,269 | — | — |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,623 | — | — |
| 1917 | 5 | #5,060 | — | — |
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).