Meritt — #14172 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Meritt

The Social Security Administration has registered 78 babies named Meritt between 1997 and 2024, spanning 28 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Meritt currently holds the #14172 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 10 babies received it in a single year. Meritt is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 55 additional births since 1920.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Meritt performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 48 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Meritt shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Meritt in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 78 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.