Merari
Merari was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,883 among girls’ names; 1,370 Americans have been recorded with it since 1953 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,350 Americans named Merari and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 15 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Merari by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Merari?
#9,883 among girls’ names, 2025
Merari fell from #5,777 in 2015 to #9,883 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 12.9 to 6.2 per million.
66 babies in 2004, the peak
Merari peaked in 2004, when 66 girls were given it, #2,543 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,883 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,274 | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,883 | 13.1 |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,260 | 15.2 |
| 2021 | 10 | #10,063 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,597 | 13.6 |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,258 | 14.9 |
| 2018 | 27 | #4,957 | 15.9 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,736 | 6.4 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,335 | 11.3 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23 | #5,777 | 12.9 |
| 2014 | 28 | #4,985 | 15.7 |
| 2013 | 37 | #4,058 | 21.1 |
| 2012 | 36 | #4,185 | 20.4 |
| 2011 | 35 | #4,212 | 19.9 |
| 2010 | 50 | #3,289 | 28.1 |
| 2009 | 51 | #3,281 | 27.8 |
| 2008 | 52 | #3,248 | 27.5 |
| 2007 | 61 | #2,953 | 31.7 |
| 2006 | 51 | #3,249 | 26.8 |
| 2005 | 54 | #2,988 | 29.2 |
| 2004 | 66 | #2,543 | 35.9 |
| 2003 | 37 | #3,784 | 20.3 |
| 2002 | 60 | #2,597 | 33.4 |
| 2001 | 47 | #3,028 | 26.1 |
| 2000 | 47 | #3,001 | 25.9 |
| 1999 | 36 | #3,477 | 20.3 |
| 1998 | 28 | #4,099 | 15.8 |
| 1997 | 27 | #4,085 | 15.5 |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,403 | 13.7 |
| 1995 | 26 | #4,055 | 14.8 |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,959 | 11.2 |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,193 | 13.8 |
| 1992 | 26 | #4,044 | 14.1 |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,429 | 12.3 |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,625 | 11.1 |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,454 | 11.4 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,528 | 6.7 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,145 | 5.8 |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,117 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,756 | 7.1 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,683 | 5.9 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,659 | 9.6 |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,095 | 5.6 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,212 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,750 | 7.2 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,450 | 7.5 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,384 | 7.5 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,677 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,879 | 6.2 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,840 | 2.9 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,224 | 3.0 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,245 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Merari a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,370 Americans recorded as Merari, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 10 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Merari: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Merari, and how old are they?
1,350 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,370 Americans ever recorded as Merari. The median Merari alive today is 22 years old; half are between 15 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 1,766 people named Merari (1,631 women and girls, 135 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,258 born in the U.S. The Census count is 40% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 84 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 239 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 746 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 275 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Merari born?
The states with the most babies named Merari are California, Texas and New York, with 95% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 300 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Texas | 253 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| New York | 22 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Arizona | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Merari is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Merari is most over-represented in Texas: since 1953 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Merari with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 22,598 babies since 1880, Merari is the sixth most given (6.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 104 babies (9.6%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Merari
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Merari and names like it
- Compare Merari and MerryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMerari peaked in 2004.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Merari since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Merari.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Merari alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.