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Merritt

Rank in 2024
#1,888
Born in 2024
84
Peak year
1924 · #580
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:158 in 2024 (#1,408)

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 84 boys were named Merritt, about 1 in every 20,420.
  • It peaked in 1924 with 121 babies, ranked #580.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 6,034 boys 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.

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Greatest: 1,572 babies, 0.09 per 1,000. Silent: 1,152 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Boomers: 889 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen X: 374 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Millennials: 326 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Z: 444 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 981 babies, 0.05 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.