girls:
1.3k births since 1953
#4398 (23rd percentile)
boys:
21 births since 1997
#4565 (0th percentile)
overall:
1.3k births since 1953
#6396 (17th percentile)
The name Merari is the #6,396 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,347 recorded births since 1953. This represents the 17.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 17.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,398 (23.0% percentile) for all time with 1,326 births since 1953. For boys, it ranks #4,565 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 21 births since 1997.
Merari first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1953 (1953 for girls and 1997 for boys). Birth data for Merari is available in 51 out of the 71 years between 1953 and 2023 (51 years for girls and 4 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Merari has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.4% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Merari reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 6.5% percentile (ranked #876) with 33 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 33 births per million (ranked 6.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Merari ranks #931 for girls (1.7% percentile) with 12 births per million, which is 36.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Merari reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #791) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2018.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Merari".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Merari. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 89.7% confident that Merari is pronounced as meh-RAH-ree, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is mer-AH-ree, at 10.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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