Merric
Merric was last recorded in 2022, when 8 babies were given it; 170 Americans have been recorded with it between 2004 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Merric by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Merric?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,552, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
17 babies in 2006, the peak
Merric peaked in 2006, when 17 boys were given it, #5,226 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 8 | #9,552 | 4.6 |
| 2020 | 6 | #11,518 | 3.5 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,639 | 5.0 |
| 2018 | 7 | #10,369 | 3.9 |
| 2017 | 8 | #9,408 | 4.3 |
| 2016 | 12 | #6,996 | 6.3 |
| 2015 | 9 | #8,480 | 4.7 |
| 2014 | 7 | #10,354 | 3.6 |
| 2013 | 11 | #7,373 | 5.8 |
| 2012 | 8 | #9,415 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (18)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 7 | #10,380 | 3.7 |
| 2010 | 11 | #7,408 | 5.7 |
| 2009 | 8 | #9,578 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,643 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 12 | #6,933 | 5.8 |
| 2006 | 17 | #5,226 | 8.3 |
| 2005 | 12 | #6,485 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,821 | 5.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Merric a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Merric has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 18 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Merric: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Merric, and how old are they?
An estimated 168 Americans named Merric and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 10 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 196 people named Merric (28 women and girls, 168 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 156 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Merric 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 Merric?
Merric is a less common spelling of Merrick: SSA has recorded 170 Merric and 6,311 Merrick since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 7,501 babies since 1880, Merric is the sixth most given (2.3% of them). In 2025 none of their 214 babies recorded by SSA was a Merric (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 Merric
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 Merric and names like it
- Compare Merric and MerrickBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMerric peaked in 2006.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Merric.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Merric alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.