Merritt
Meaning not yet sourced
Editor’s note Used for both: 77% of US babies named Merritt in 2025 were girls
Girl’s name · from a surname
What Merritt means
Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Merritt yet, and we don’t write our own.
Editor’s note Used for both: 77% of US babies named Merritt in 2025 were girls Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.
How popular is Merritt?
▲ 703 vs 2024
US: Rising: up from #2294 in 2015.
Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 401 girls got the name (#703 that year). First in the US records in 1919.
How common
- About 1 in 4,008 baby girls in the US in 2025
“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.
Where in the US
Most popular in NE (3.38 per 1,000 girls), TN (1.25 per 1,000 girls), MS (1.12 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.
SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.
US vs UK
Merritt is #703 in the US. It is not in the England & Wales list for 2025.
| Rank 2025 | Babies | How common | Rank 2015 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US | #703 | 401 | 1 in 4,008 | #2294 |
| England & Wales | – | – | – | – |
| Scotland | – | – | – | – |
Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).
Boy or girl?
In 2025, 77.4% of US babies named Merritt were girls.
| Girls | Boys | |
|---|---|---|
| US 2025 | 401 | 117 |
| England & Wales 2025 | 0 | 0 |
| US all years since 1880 | 3,231 | 6,151 |
| England & Wales since 1996 | 0 | 0 |
Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.
Other spellings
Other spellings parents chose in 2025
- Merit51 US
- Merrit14 US
- Meritt11 US
Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.
If you like Merritt
Girls
- Carter#454“son of Arthur”*
- Sutton#181“south + town”*
- Quincy#814Editor’s note Used for both: 44% of US babies named Quincy in 2025 were girls
- Remington#511“settlement by the boundary stream”*
- Blakely#191Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #191 vs #1,407 in 2025
- Lennon#214“descendant of Lover (Leannán)”*
For a brother
- Ellis#243“benevolent, kind”*
- Rhett#188“advice”*
- Wells#345“spring”*
- Montgomery#960“Gomeric's hill”*
- Ford#474Editor’s note Up from #741 in 2015 to #474 in 2025 in the US
- Calvin#132“bald”*
Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under From a surname, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Merritt’s. Rank is US 2025.
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