Merick
Merick was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,326 among boys’ names; 190 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Merick by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Merick?
#10,326 among boys’ names, 2025
Merick fell from #6,939 in 2015 to #10,326 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 6.3 to 4.1 per million.
15 babies in 2006, the peak
Merick peaked in 2006, when 15 boys were given it, #5,698 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 47% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #10,326 | 4.1 |
| 2021 | 6 | #11,669 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 7 | #10,229 | 4.1 |
| 2019 | 8 | #9,441 | 4.5 |
| 2018 | 8 | #9,358 | 4.4 |
| 2017 | 7 | #10,408 | 3.8 |
| 2016 | 5 | #13,532 | 2.6 |
| 2015 | 12 | #6,939 | 6.3 |
| 2014 | 13 | #6,512 | 6.8 |
| 2012 | 5 | #13,547 | 2.6 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 10 | #7,884 | 5.3 |
| 2010 | 8 | #9,368 | 4.2 |
| 2009 | 9 | #8,758 | 4.5 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,642 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 8 | #9,450 | 3.9 |
| 2006 | 15 | #5,698 | 7.3 |
| 2005 | 9 | #8,081 | 4.5 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,820 | 5.5 |
| 2003 | 5 | #12,106 | 2.5 |
| 2001 | 12 | #5,897 | 6.2 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,935 | 4.1 |
| 1999 | 5 | #11,009 | 2.6 |
| 1995 | 5 | #9,804 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Merick a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Merick has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 23 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Merick: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Merick, and how old are they?
An estimated 188 Americans named Merick and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 10 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 263 people named Merick (26 women and girls, 237 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 170 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times 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
Merick is a less common spelling of Merrick: SSA has recorded 190 Merick and 6,311 Merrick since 1880.
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 Merick
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.