girls:
62 births since 1917
#5654 (1st percentile)
boys:
63 births since 1915
#4523 (1st percentile)
overall:
125 births since 1915
#7614 (2nd percentile)
The name Merdith is the #7,614 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 125 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 1.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,523 (1.3% percentile) for all time with 63 births since 1915. For girls, it ranks #5,654 (1.1% percentile) for all time with 62 births since 1917.
Merdith first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (1915 for boys and 1917 for girls). Birth data for Merdith is available in 19 out of the 74 years between 1915 and 1988 (11 years for boys and 10 years for girls). 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 Merdith is truly gender-neutral, with nearly equal distribution between boys and girls. In 1988, 100.0% of babies named Merdith were girls.
For boys, Merdith reached its peak popularity in 1927, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #536) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1927, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1948.
For girls, Merdith reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #586) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1918, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1988.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Merdith".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Merdith. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 87.1% confident that Merdith is pronounced as MER-dihth, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is mer-DIHTH, at 12.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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