Merik
Merik was given to 5 boys in 2025, #13,246 among boys’ names; 339 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Merik by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Merik?
#13,246 among boys’ names, 2025
Merik fell from #7,854 in 2015 to #13,246 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 5.2 to 2.9 per million.
28 babies in 2006, the peak
Merik peaked in 2006, when 28 boys were given it, #3,654 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #13,246 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 6 | #11,773 | 3.5 |
| 2022 | 7 | #10,489 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 7 | #10,415 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,502 | 5.2 |
| 2019 | 5 | #13,458 | 2.8 |
| 2018 | 12 | #6,982 | 6.6 |
| 2017 | 21 | #4,683 | 11.3 |
| 2016 | 20 | #4,881 | 10.5 |
| 2015 | 10 | #7,854 | 5.2 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 17 | #5,400 | 8.9 |
| 2013 | 14 | #6,130 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 17 | #5,411 | 9.0 |
| 2011 | 12 | #6,861 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 14 | #6,258 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 17 | #5,472 | 8.6 |
| 2008 | 22 | #4,486 | 10.8 |
| 2007 | 21 | #4,594 | 10.1 |
| 2006 | 28 | #3,654 | 13.6 |
| 2005 | 24 | #3,894 | 12.0 |
| 2004 | 17 | #4,925 | 8.6 |
| 2003 | 10 | #7,061 | 5.1 |
| 2001 | 5 | #11,719 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,724 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,834 | 3.7 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,693 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Merik a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Merik has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Merik: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Merik, and how old are they?
An estimated 335 Americans named Merik 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 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 365 people named Merik (27 women and girls, 338 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 304 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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
Merik is a less common spelling of Merrick: SSA has recorded 339 Merik 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 Merik
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.