Meredyth
Meredyth was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 605 Americans have been recorded with it between 1915 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Meredyth by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Meredyth?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,878, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
18 babies in 1974, the peak
Meredyth peaked in 1974, when 18 girls were given it, #3,649 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #16,878 | 3.1 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,311 | 5.2 |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,142 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,231 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,619 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,458 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,234 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,401 | 7.9 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,969 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,077 | 2.6 |
Every recorded year (71)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 10 | #10,658 | 5.4 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,679 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,366 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,136 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,038 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,368 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,548 | 7.3 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,650 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,887 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,316 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,835 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,234 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,907 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,070 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,960 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,401 | 7.1 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,144 | 5.1 |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,999 | 9.2 |
| 1986 | 12 | #6,020 | 7.0 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,807 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,758 | 7.1 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,526 | 6.0 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,106 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,869 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,176 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,097 | 5.6 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,290 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,348 | 10.4 |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,085 | 8.2 |
| 1975 | 12 | #5,045 | 8.2 |
| 1974 | 18 | #3,649 | 12.3 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,505 | 8.9 |
| 1972 | 15 | #4,023 | 9.9 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,087 | 4.2 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,227 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,028 | 4.3 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,535 | 3.6 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,518 | 3.2 |
| 1959 | 6 | #6,011 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,445 | 4.4 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,741 | 3.0 |
| 1955 | 11 | #3,716 | 5.6 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,955 | 2.8 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,772 | 2.9 |
| 1948 | 6 | #5,067 | 3.5 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,628 | 3.9 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,882 | 5.1 |
| 1945 | 5 | #5,021 | 3.8 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,713 | 5.7 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,476 | 4.4 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,849 | 4.1 |
| 1940 | 9 | #3,128 | 7.9 |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,326 | 7.3 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,726 | 6.3 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,692 | 6.6 |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,139 | 5.7 |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,189 | 5.6 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,406 | 5.4 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,358 | 4.2 |
| 1918 | 7 | #4,142 | 6.0 |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,084 | 6.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Meredyth a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Meredyth has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 71 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Meredyth: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Meredyth, and how old are they?
An estimated 508 Americans named Meredyth and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (84% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 26 and 52. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 583 people named Meredyth (568 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 526 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Meredyth?
Meredyth is a less common spelling of Meredith: SSA has recorded 605 Meredyth and 82,044 Meredith since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 87,247 babies since 1880, Meredyth is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 656 babies recorded by SSA was a Meredyth (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Meredyth
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 Meredyth and names like it
- Compare Meredyth and MeredithBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sMeredyth peaked in 1974.
- The top names of 1974The year the most babies were named Meredyth.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Meredyth alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.