Meredith — #491 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Meredith

The Social Security Administration has registered 77,125 babies named Meredith between 1895 and 2024, spanning 130 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Meredith currently holds the #491 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1980, when 2,071 babies received it in a single year. Meredith is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 4,257 additional births since 1883.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Meredith performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 19,204 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Meredith shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 6,503 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Meredith in 50 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Meredith in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 77,125 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.