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Same rise and fall as Merritt, around the same years.
WHERE MERRITT IS POPULAR · 2024
In 2024, Merritt ranked highest in Nebraska (#327) and lowest in Ohio (#2,582). 40 states had fewer than 5 babies with the name, too few to list.
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MARKET MOVERS · 10 YEARS
Merritt name popularity
Merritt has been given to 9,382 babies in the United States since 1880.
It peaked in 2025, when 518 babies got the name, and its best rank was #785 in 1880.
In 2025, 518 babies were named Merritt (#1,142 in the country), its biggest year on record. That is up 241% from 2015.
About 34% of babies named Merritt were girls and 66% were boys.
An estimated 6.4K people named Merritt are alive in the US today, with a median age of 16.
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The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.
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