girls:
11 births since 1952
#5705 (0th percentile)
overall:
11 births since 1952
#7728 (0th percentile)
The name Meritta is the #7,728 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 11 recorded births since 1952. This represents the 0.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,705 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 11 births since 1952.
Meritta first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1952 (first recorded for girls in 1952). Birth data for Meritta is available in 2 out of the 2 years between 1952 and 1953. 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.
For girls, Meritta reached its peak popularity in 1952, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #689) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1952, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile).
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Meritta".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Meritta. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 45.2% confident that Meritta is pronounced as mer-IH-tuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is meh-RIH-tuh, at 22.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like M ER0 IH1 T AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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