Meaning not yet researched.
Merritt: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 401 in 2025. Its best rank was #703 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 77% of babies named Merritt in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#703 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Merritt: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 401 girls in 2025. Peak: #703 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 401 (2025).
In 2025, 401 US girls were named Merritt, making it the 703rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 707 places from #1,410 in 2024. That is 242 more than the 159 girls named Merritt in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #703, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 401. For comparison, it was #2,308 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 117 US boys were named Merritt, making it the 1,505th most common boys’ name of the year, up 395 places from #1,900 in 2024. That is 33 more than the 84 boys named Merritt in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #400, reached in 1899. The most boys given the name in a single year was 121, in 1924. For comparison, it was #2,032 in 2015 and #974 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Merritt in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 18 babies with the name. In all, 9,382 US babies have been given the name, 34% of them girls and 66% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,636 babies named Merritt.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,715 US girls were named Merritt; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 401. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,008 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Merritt ranked highest in Nebraska in 2025, at #83 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Rarer spellings such as Merit, Merrit and Meritt are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Merit (544), Merrit (295), Meritt (144).
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 Merritt 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 27 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nebraska | 24 | #83 | — |
| Tennessee | 40 | #192 | — |
| North Carolina | 39 | #288 | #1,195 |
| Mississippi | 10 | #291 | — |
| Alabama | 17 | #292 | #668 |
| Kentucky | 15 | #299 | — |
| Arkansas | 10 | #329 | — |
| Louisiana | 11 | #415 | — |
| Georgia | 27 | #424 | #1,689 |
| Iowa | 7 | #476 | — |
| Texas | 55 | #576 | #1,780 |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #599 | — |
| South Carolina | 8 | #602 | — |
| Virginia | 12 | #644 | — |
| Kansas | 5 | #657 | — |
| Colorado | 7 | #765 | — |
| Florida | 19 | #854 | — |
| Missouri | 6 | #889 | — |
| Indiana | 7 | #892 | — |
| Illinois | 10 | #902 | — |
| Ohio | 10 | #939 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #986 | — |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,351 | — |
| California | 8 | #2,416 | #3,793 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 401 | #703 | 117 | #1,505 |
| 2024 | 159 | #1,410 | 84 | #1,900 |
| 2023 | 136 | #1,563 | 83 | #1,904 |
| 2022 | 139 | #1,544 | 78 | #1,977 |
| 2021 | 127 | #1,648 | 82 | #1,882 |
| 2020 | 139 | #1,531 | 80 | #1,862 |
| 2019 | 133 | #1,603 | 87 | #1,783 |
| 2018 | 151 | #1,459 | 106 | #1,581 |
| 2017 | 175 | #1,333 | 105 | #1,565 |
| 2016 | 155 | #1,481 | 78 | #1,898 |
| 2015 | 81 | #2,308 | 71 | #2,032 |
| 2014 | 87 | #2,191 | 65 | #2,133 |
| 2013 | 50 | #3,250 | 62 | #2,156 |
| 2012 | 43 | #3,690 | 42 | #2,853 |
| 2011 | 38 | #3,982 | 40 | #2,936 |
| 2010 | 31 | #4,699 | 36 | #3,159 |
| 2009 | 31 | #4,772 | 34 | #3,310 |
| 2008 | 44 | #3,687 | 28 | #3,797 |
| 2007 | 35 | #4,353 | 32 | #3,421 |
| 2006 | 22 | #6,063 | 28 | #3,657 |
| 2005 | 39 | #3,783 | 27 | #3,587 |
| 2004 | 34 | #4,152 | 28 | #3,424 |
| 2003 | 44 | #3,328 | 20 | #4,223 |
| 2002 | 25 | #4,851 | 26 | #3,421 |
| 2001 | 36 | #3,679 | 21 | #3,932 |
| 2000 | 29 | #4,256 | 24 | #3,494 |
| 1999 | 32 | #3,769 | 23 | #3,452 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,287 | 15 | #4,564 |
| 1997 | 34 | #3,417 | 20 | #3,546 |
| 1996 | 30 | #3,694 | 20 | #3,502 |
| 1995 | 35 | #3,265 | 25 | #2,897 |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,334 | 18 | #3,703 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,874 | 21 | #3,211 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,197 | 18 | #3,557 |
| 1991 | 21 | #4,752 | 18 | #3,414 |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,468 | 16 | #3,720 |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,461 | 29 | #2,334 |
| 1988 | 21 | #4,262 | 18 | #3,038 |
| 1987 | 23 | #3,822 | 24 | #2,374 |
| 1986 | 22 | #3,840 | 25 | #2,269 |
| 1985 | 23 | #3,692 | 21 | #2,480 |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,828 | 16 | #2,903 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,689 | 21 | #2,384 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,203 | 16 | #2,927 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,144 | 20 | #2,466 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,662 | 18 | #2,692 |
| 1979 | 25 | #3,298 | 23 | #2,211 |
| 1978 | 29 | #2,838 | 19 | #2,446 |
| 1977 | 18 | #4,007 | 25 | #1,982 |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,901 | 14 | #2,911 |
| 1975 | 21 | #3,361 | 19 | #2,335 |
| 1974 | 19 | #3,516 | 19 | #2,250 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,898 | 18 | #2,292 |
| 1972 | 21 | #3,132 | 25 | #1,805 |
| 1971 | 15 | #4,059 | 25 | #1,814 |
| 1970 | 31 | #2,430 | 28 | #1,647 |
| 1969 | 33 | #2,240 | 30 | #1,483 |
| 1968 | 32 | #2,151 | 24 | #1,631 |
| 1967 | 27 | #2,360 | 25 | #1,557 |
| 1966 | 37 | #1,901 | 34 | #1,318 |
| 1965 | — | — | 28 | #1,471 |
| 1964 | 16 | #3,336 | 40 | #1,227 |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,960 | 31 | #1,419 |
| 1962 | 13 | #3,716 | 39 | #1,256 |
| 1961 | 17 | #3,148 | 44 | #1,202 |
| 1960 | — | — | 38 | #1,286 |
| 1959 | — | — | 49 | #1,111 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,711 | 27 | #1,528 |
| 1957 | — | — | 44 | #1,180 |
| 1956 | — | — | 41 | #1,200 |
| 1955 | — | — | 49 | #1,082 |
| 1954 | — | — | 57 | #989 |
| 1953 | — | — | 57 | #952 |
| 1952 | — | — | 46 | #1,074 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,231 | 48 | #1,034 |
| 1950 | — | — | 51 | #974 |
| 1949 | — | — | 55 | #939 |
| 1948 | — | — | 57 | #918 |
| 1947 | — | — | 56 | #952 |
| 1946 | — | — | 60 | #853 |
| 1945 | — | — | 54 | #858 |
| 1944 | — | — | 57 | #839 |
| 1943 | — | — | 68 | #801 |
| 1942 | — | — | 53 | #918 |
| 1941 | — | — | 61 | #809 |
| 1940 | — | — | 53 | #868 |
| 1939 | — | — | 67 | #737 |
| 1938 | — | — | 63 | #777 |
| 1937 | — | — | 61 | #792 |
| 1936 | — | — | 69 | #727 |
| 1935 | — | — | 51 | #890 |
| 1934 | — | — | 63 | #784 |
| 1933 | — | — | 62 | #778 |
| 1932 | — | — | 58 | #840 |
| 1931 | — | — | 69 | #749 |
| 1930 | — | — | 75 | #734 |
| 1929 | — | — | 79 | #698 |
| 1928 | — | — | 89 | #668 |
| 1927 | — | — | 83 | #715 |
| 1926 | — | — | 94 | #653 |
| 1925 | — | — | 82 | #716 |
| 1924 | — | — | 121 | #580 |
| 1923 | — | — | 89 | #686 |
| 1922 | — | — | 107 | #623 |
| 1921 | — | — | 115 | #594 |
| 1920 | — | — | 107 | #612 |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,330 | 80 | #700 |
| 1918 | — | — | 93 | #640 |
| 1917 | — | — | 97 | #606 |
| 1916 | — | — | 95 | #598 |
| 1915 | — | — | 80 | #649 |
| 1914 | — | — | 55 | #691 |
| 1913 | — | — | 65 | #537 |
| 1912 | — | — | 52 | #559 |
| 1911 | — | — | 19 | #748 |
| 1910 | — | — | 14 | #847 |
| 1909 | — | — | 14 | #792 |
| 1908 | — | — | 9 | #999 |
| 1907 | — | — | 13 | #766 |
| 1906 | — | — | 19 | #535 |
| 1905 | — | — | 19 | #542 |
| 1904 | — | — | 16 | #584 |
| 1903 | — | — | 12 | #685 |
| 1902 | — | — | 14 | #605 |
| 1901 | — | — | 8 | #829 |
| 1900 | — | — | 7 | #1,133 |
| 1899 | — | — | 22 | #400 |
| 1898 | — | — | 22 | #426 |
| 1897 | — | — | 17 | #487 |
| 1896 | — | — | 14 | #579 |
| 1895 | — | — | 14 | #570 |
| 1894 | — | — | 22 | #405 |
| 1893 | — | — | 15 | #496 |
| 1892 | — | — | 17 | #491 |
| 1891 | — | — | 13 | #516 |
| 1890 | — | — | 12 | #587 |
| 1889 | — | — | 12 | #572 |
| 1888 | — | — | 12 | #595 |
| 1887 | — | — | 14 | #474 |
| 1886 | — | — | 10 | #629 |
| 1885 | — | — | 19 | #420 |
| 1884 | — | — | 9 | #686 |
| 1883 | — | — | 9 | #669 |
| 1882 | — | — | 5 | #1,043 |
| 1881 | — | — | 13 | #499 |
| 1880 | — | — | 18 | #418 |
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).