Merrit
Merrit was last recorded in 2025, when 14 babies were given it; 295 Americans have been recorded with it between 1912 and 2025 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Merrit by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Merrit?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,672, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
14 babies in 2025, the peak
Merrit peaked in 2025, when 14 babies were given it (0 boys, #0 among boys’ names). SSA did not list it in 2024.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,757 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,679 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,586 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,930 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,052 | 6 | #11,672 |
| 2020 | under 5 | 5 | #13,390 | |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,198 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,338 | 6 | #11,670 |
| 2017 | under 5 | 6 | #11,706 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 6 | #11,661 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 5 | #13,381 | |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,895 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 5 | #13,647 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 6 | #11,961 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 5 | #13,723 | |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,123 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,045 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,288 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,917 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 7 | #7,150 | |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,889 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,984 | 5 | #5,391 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,267 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 8 | #3,201 | |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,702 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,663 | 5 | #4,439 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,336 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 5 | #4,348 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 7 | #3,399 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 9 | #2,883 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 5 | #3,780 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 5 | #3,807 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 5 | #3,900 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 5 | #4,030 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 9 | #2,934 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 7 | #3,680 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 5 | #4,666 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 7 | #3,698 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 7 | #3,754 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 7 | #3,709 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 7 | #3,628 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 6 | #4,011 | |
| 1913 | under 5 | 7 | #2,417 | |
| 1912 | under 5 | 5 | #2,786 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Merrit a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 295 Americans recorded as Merrit, 38% are girls and 62% boys. In 2025 it went to 14 girls; SSA lists no boys 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 Merrit: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Merrit, and how old are they?
An estimated 197 Americans named Merrit and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (67% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 7 and 60. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 416 people named Merrit (201 women and girls, 215 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 159 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Merrit 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 Merrit?
Merrit is a less common spelling of Merritt: SSA has recorded 295 Merrit and 9,382 Merritt since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 10,231 babies since 1880, Merrit is the third most given (2.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 556 babies (2.5%), again the third most given.
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.
More about Merrit and names like it
- Compare Merrit and MerrittBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMerrit peaked in 2025.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Merrit.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Merrit alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.