girls:
1.4k births since 1916
#4307 (25th percentile)
boys:
5 births since 1880
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
1.4k births since 1880
#6313 (18th percentile)
The name Merida is the #6,313 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,432 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 18.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 18.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,307 (24.6% percentile) for all time with 1,427 births since 1916. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1880.
Merida has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1916 for girls). Birth data for Merida is available in 64 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (63 years for girls and 1 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 Merida has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female. Interestingly, until around 1916, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 1880 to 1915), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (100.0% girls from 1916 to 2023).
For girls, Merida reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 11.7% percentile (ranked #838) with 61 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 61 births per million (ranked 11.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Merida ranks #887 for girls (6.3% percentile) with 37 births per million, which is 60.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Merida reached its peak popularity in 1880, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #203) with 42 births per million. The name was most common in 1880, with 42 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1880.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Merida".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Merida. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 67.6% confident that Merida is pronounced as MEH-rih-duh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is mer-EE-duh, at 18.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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