Merrit — boys' name

What the Data Says About Merrit

The Social Security Administration has registered 183 babies named Merrit between 1912 and 2021, spanning 110 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Merrit currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 1930, when 9 babies received it in a single year. Merrit is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 98 additional births since 1961.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Merrit performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 33 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Merrit shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Merrit 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 183 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.