Meaning not yet researched.
Merida: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 65 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,796 in 2017.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,796 in 2017; #2,677 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Merida in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,677 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2017, at #1,796.
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Merida: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 65 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,796 in 2017 · most girls in one year: 116 (2017).
In 2025, 65 US girls were named Merida, making it the 2,677th most common girls’ name of the year, down 226 places from #2,451 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 74 girls named Merida in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,796, reached in 2017. That year also had the most girls given the name: 116. For comparison, it was #2,009 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Merida in 66 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 5 babies. In all, 1,572 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 719 babies named Merida.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 854 US girls were named Merida; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 116. In 2025 that was about 1 in 24,727 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Merida ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #2,004 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Mireida 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: Mireida (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 Merida in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 11 | #2,004 | #1,684 |
| California | 10 | #2,040 | #2,264 |
| Florida | 6 | #2,066 | #2,314 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 65 | #2,677 | — | — |
| 2024 | 74 | #2,451 | — | — |
| 2023 | 66 | #2,664 | — | — |
| 2022 | 80 | #2,334 | — | — |
| 2021 | 90 | #2,114 | — | — |
| 2020 | 91 | #2,045 | — | — |
| 2019 | 85 | #2,186 | — | — |
| 2018 | 85 | #2,202 | — | — |
| 2017 | 116 | #1,796 | — | — |
| 2016 | 102 | #1,967 | — | — |
| 2015 | 99 | #2,009 | — | — |
| 2014 | 103 | #1,949 | — | — |
| 2013 | 110 | #1,842 | — | — |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,788 | — | — |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,218 | — | — |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,046 | — | — |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,207 | — | — |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,266 | — | — |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,417 | — | — |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,261 | — | — |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,813 | — | — |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,907 | — | — |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,353 | — | — |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,642 | — | — |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,180 | — | — |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,520 | — | — |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,216 | — | — |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,651 | — | — |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,831 | — | — |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,818 | — | — |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,440 | — | — |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,985 | — | — |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,396 | — | — |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,537 | — | — |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,741 | — | — |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,719 | — | — |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,451 | — | — |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,780 | — | — |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,148 | — | — |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,662 | — | — |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,896 | — | — |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,611 | — | — |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,160 | — | — |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,461 | — | — |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,341 | — | — |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,904 | — | — |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,951 | — | — |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,495 | — | — |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,632 | — | — |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,375 | — | — |
| 1943 | 11 | #2,979 | — | — |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,634 | — | — |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,845 | — | — |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,195 | — | — |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,109 | — | — |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,775 | — | — |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,875 | — | — |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,610 | — | — |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,681 | — | — |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,649 | — | — |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,252 | — | — |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,929 | — | — |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,625 | — | — |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,643 | — | — |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,240 | — | — |
| 1880 | — | — | 5 | #1,013 |
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).