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Merritt

Rank in 2024
#1,408
Born in 2024
158
Peak year
2017 · #1331
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for boys:84 in 2024 (#1,888)

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 158 girls were named Merritt, about 1 in every 10,210.
  • It peaked in 2017 with 175 babies, ranked #1331.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1919.
  • 2,829 girls have been named Merritt since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Merritt per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. <0.1
    Greatest
  2. 0
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
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    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
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    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 5 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 69 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen X: 357 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Millennials: 330 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Z: 537 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,531 babies, 0.08 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

  • (countable) A unisex given name.
  • A male given name transferred from the surname, of 19th and 20th century usage.
  • A female given name from surname, of 1970s and later usage.
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From Wiktionary’s entry for Merritt, CC BY-SA 4.0.