girls:
92 births since 1961
#5624 (2nd percentile)
boys:
183 births since 1912
#4403 (4th percentile)
overall:
275 births since 1912
#7464 (4th percentile)
The name Merrit is the #7,464 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 275 recorded births since 1912. This represents the 3.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,403 (3.9% percentile) for all time with 183 births since 1912. For girls, it ranks #5,624 (1.6% percentile) for all time with 92 births since 1961.
Merrit first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1912 (1912 for boys and 1961 for girls). Birth data for Merrit is available in 42 out of the 112 years between 1912 and 2023 (30 years for boys and 16 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 Merrit has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (66.5% of all recorded births). In 2023, 0.0% of babies named Merrit were boys.
For boys, Merrit reached its peak popularity in 1930, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #521) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1913, with 13 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
For girls, Merrit reached its peak popularity in 1962, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #770) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Merrit ranks #946 for girls (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 87.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Merrit".
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