Merek
Merek was last recorded in 2022, when 5 babies were given it; 368 Americans have been recorded with it between 1987 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Merek by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Merek?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,665, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
27 babies in 2014, the peak
Merek peaked in 2014, when 27 boys were given it, #3,857 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | #13,665 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 7 | #10,414 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,335 | 6.4 |
| 2019 | 19 | #5,087 | 10.6 |
| 2018 | 14 | #6,220 | 7.7 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,380 | 5.9 |
| 2016 | 22 | #4,574 | 11.6 |
| 2015 | 17 | #5,440 | 8.9 |
| 2014 | 27 | #3,857 | 14.1 |
| 2013 | 16 | #5,551 | 8.5 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 13 | #6,534 | 6.9 |
| 2011 | 15 | #5,858 | 7.9 |
| 2010 | 12 | #6,946 | 6.3 |
| 2009 | 19 | #5,044 | 9.6 |
| 2008 | 16 | #5,674 | 7.8 |
| 2007 | 25 | #4,081 | 12.0 |
| 2006 | 18 | #4,981 | 8.8 |
| 2005 | 20 | #4,404 | 10.0 |
| 2004 | 15 | #5,404 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 7 | #9,292 | 3.5 |
| 2002 | 10 | #6,873 | 5.2 |
| 2001 | 13 | #5,563 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 10 | #6,663 | 5.1 |
| 1999 | 5 | #11,007 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 10 | #6,142 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,629 | 3.2 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,731 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Merek a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Merek has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Merek: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Merek, and how old are they?
An estimated 363 Americans named Merek and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 11 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 388 people named Merek (13 women and girls, 375 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 344 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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).
Names spelled alike
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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Merek
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.