Merrick — #1217 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Merrick

The Social Security Administration has registered 5,615 babies named Merrick between 1905 and 2024, spanning 120 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Merrick currently holds the #1217 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 274 babies received it in a single year. Merrick is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 502 additional births since 1962.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Merrick performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,898 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Merrick shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 590 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Merrick in 32 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Merrick 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 5,615 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.