Merideth
Merideth was last recorded in 2023, when 6 babies were given it; 1,761 Americans have been recorded with it between 1916 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,610 Americans named Merideth and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 31 and 53.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Merideth by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Merideth?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,585, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
61 babies in 1972, the peak
Merideth peaked in 1972, when 61 girls were given it, #1,533 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6 | #14,585 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,927 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,530 | 3.7 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,334 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,324 | 3.5 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,992 | 3.9 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,339 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,513 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,177 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,969 | 5.6 |
Every recorded year (83)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 9 | #12,116 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,886 | 6.3 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,368 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,381 | 8.9 |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,546 | 12.4 |
| 2004 | 24 | #5,326 | 13.1 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,486 | 9.9 |
| 2002 | 29 | #4,347 | 16.1 |
| 2001 | 29 | #4,285 | 16.1 |
| 2000 | 26 | #4,618 | 14.3 |
| 1999 | 30 | #3,933 | 16.9 |
| 1998 | 37 | #3,331 | 20.9 |
| 1997 | 32 | #3,590 | 18.4 |
| 1996 | 27 | #4,015 | 15.4 |
| 1995 | 26 | #4,056 | 14.8 |
| 1994 | 27 | #3,966 | 15.1 |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,194 | 13.8 |
| 1992 | 30 | #3,637 | 16.3 |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,431 | 12.3 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,668 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 32 | #3,294 | 17.4 |
| 1988 | 43 | #2,511 | 24.1 |
| 1987 | 36 | #2,757 | 20.7 |
| 1986 | 29 | #3,175 | 16.9 |
| 1985 | 44 | #2,303 | 25.6 |
| 1984 | 36 | #2,605 | 21.4 |
| 1983 | 39 | #2,414 | 23.3 |
| 1982 | 42 | #2,349 | 24.8 |
| 1981 | 38 | #2,516 | 22.8 |
| 1980 | 42 | #2,330 | 25.3 |
| 1979 | 58 | #1,849 | 36.1 |
| 1978 | 45 | #2,112 | 29.4 |
| 1977 | 61 | #1,710 | 39.8 |
| 1976 | 50 | #1,858 | 34.1 |
| 1975 | 29 | #2,656 | 19.9 |
| 1974 | 42 | #2,016 | 28.6 |
| 1973 | 48 | #1,798 | 32.9 |
| 1972 | 61 | #1,533 | 40.1 |
| 1971 | 57 | #1,633 | 34.3 |
| 1970 | 43 | #1,976 | 24.6 |
| 1969 | 31 | #2,333 | 18.4 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,146 | 7.3 |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,980 | 7.3 |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,680 | 7.7 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,407 | 5.7 |
| 1964 | 12 | #4,030 | 6.3 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,286 | 2.6 |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,937 | 6.1 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,780 | 4.5 |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,213 | 4.9 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,242 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,611 | 5.9 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,743 | 3.0 |
| 1955 | 13 | #3,324 | 6.6 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,536 | 4.1 |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,882 | 5.3 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,366 | 4.3 |
| 1951 | 16 | #2,656 | 8.9 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,856 | 8.2 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,808 | 8.2 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,917 | 7.7 |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,169 | 6.8 |
| 1946 | 17 | #2,369 | 10.8 |
| 1945 | 10 | #3,057 | 7.7 |
| 1944 | 10 | #3,085 | 7.5 |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,406 | 6.5 |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,353 | 6.7 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,844 | 5.8 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,823 | 4.4 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,715 | 4.6 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,182 | 5.4 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,761 | 4.8 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,914 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Merideth a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Merideth has been given almost only to girls: 6 boys in 84 years of records.
Girls and boys named Merideth: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Merideth, and how old are they?
1,610 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 1,761 Americans ever recorded as Merideth. The median Merideth alive today is 44 years old; half are between 31 and 53.
The 2020 Census counted 1,801 people named Merideth (1,757 women and girls, 44 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,634 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 31 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 150 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 575 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 493 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 320 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 40 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 87,256 babies since 1880, Merideth is the third most given (2.0% of them). In 2025 none of their 656 babies recorded by SSA was a Merideth (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 Merideth
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 Merideth and names like it
- Compare Merideth and MeredithBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sMerideth peaked in 1972.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Merideth since 1910.
- The top names of 1972The year the most babies were named Merideth.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Merideth alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with MMost given first.