girls:
5 births since 2003
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
293 births since 1998
#4293 (6th percentile)
overall:
298 births since 1998
#7441 (4th percentile)
The name Merrik is the #7,441 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 298 recorded births since 1998. This represents the 3.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,293 (6.3% percentile) for all time with 293 births since 1998. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2003.
Merrik first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1998 (1998 for boys and 2003 for girls). Birth data for Merrik is available in 23 out of the 26 years between 1998 and 2023 (23 years for boys and 1 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 Merrik has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Merrik reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 1.9% percentile (ranked #887) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 2014, with 11 births per million (ranked 1.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Merrik ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 25.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Merrik reached its peak popularity in 2003, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #907) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 2003, with 2 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2003.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Merrik".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Merrik is pronounced as MEH-rihk, which has 2 syllables.
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