Merrik
Merrik was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,531 among boys’ names; 315 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Merrik by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Merrik?
#11,531 among boys’ names, 2025
Merrik fell from #6,940 in 2015 to #11,531 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 6.3 to 3.5 per million.
22 babies in 2014, the peak
Merrik peaked in 2014, when 22 boys were given it, #4,481 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 27% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,531 | 3.5 |
| 2024 | 11 | #7,575 | 6.4 |
| 2023 | 5 | #13,492 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 12 | #7,094 | 6.9 |
| 2021 | 8 | #9,387 | 4.6 |
| 2020 | 12 | #6,892 | 7.0 |
| 2019 | 10 | #8,003 | 5.6 |
| 2018 | 16 | #5,696 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 15 | #5,967 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 12 | #6,997 | 6.3 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #6,940 | 6.3 |
| 2014 | 22 | #4,481 | 11.5 |
| 2013 | 19 | #4,909 | 10.0 |
| 2012 | 14 | #6,199 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 13 | #6,461 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 16 | #5,643 | 8.3 |
| 2009 | 10 | #8,094 | 5.0 |
| 2008 | 16 | #5,675 | 7.8 |
| 2007 | 21 | #4,595 | 10.1 |
| 2006 | 18 | #4,982 | 8.8 |
| 2005 | 17 | #4,954 | 8.5 |
| 2004 | 5 | #12,576 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 7 | #9,293 | 3.5 |
| 2002 | 6 | #10,221 | 3.1 |
| 1998 | 7 | #8,155 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Merrik a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 315 Americans recorded as Merrik, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Merrik: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Merrik, and how old are they?
An estimated 312 Americans named Merrik and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 8 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 306 people named Merrik (30 women and girls, 276 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 262 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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).
How common is the spelling Merrik?
Merrik is a less common spelling of Merrick: SSA has recorded 315 Merrik and 6,311 Merrick since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 7,869 babies since 1880, Merrik is the fourth most given (4.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 214 babies (2.8%), the third most given that year.
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 Merrik
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 Merrik and names like it
- Compare Merrik and MerrickBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Merrik since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Merrik.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Merrik alive today were born 2013-2025.
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