Meria
Meria was last recorded in 2018, when 5 babies were given it; 137 Americans have been recorded with it between 1951 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Meria by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Meria?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,333, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
9 babies in 1963, the peak
Meria peaked in 1963, when 9 girls were given it, #4,778 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 5 | #17,333 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,976 | 2.8 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,244 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,683 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,864 | 3.3 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,347 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,491 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,280 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,335 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,448 | 5.5 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 6 | #7,886 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,847 | 5.4 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,667 | 5.1 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,228 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,268 | 3.4 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,778 | 4.7 |
| 1960 | 5 | #7,000 | 2.5 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,895 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,217 | 3.4 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,617 | 4.1 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,540 | 3.1 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,684 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Meria a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Meria has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 22 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Meria: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Meria, and how old are they?
An estimated 123 Americans named Meria and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 55 years old and half are between 45 and 63. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 381 people named Meria (373 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 127 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Meria rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 Meria?
Meria is a less common spelling of Meriah: SSA has recorded 137 Meria and 910 Meriah since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 26,162 babies since 1880, Meria is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 410 babies recorded by SSA was a Meria (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.
More about Meria and names like it
- Compare Meria and MeriahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sMeria peaked in 1963.
- The top names of 1963The year the most babies were named Meria.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Meria alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with MMost given first.