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Girl's name · #703 in the US (2025) · Trending
68% girls · 32% boys — For most of its history Merritt was mostly a boys' name; since around 2014 most babies named Merritt have been girls. Merritt →
Merritt is climbing: on the charts since 1919, it reached #703 in 2025 — its strongest showing yet, with about 400 girls given the name last year. Roughly 3,200 have carried it all-time.
In recent years, Merritt ran about 7× its national rate in Nebraska—where it ranked #83 in 2025—and 3–5× across Alabama, Tennessee and neighboring states.
Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 20 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
It is also an American family name — about 46,000 people carried it as a surname in the 2010 census.
Among 69 notable people named Merritt:
Similar names: Baylor · Merida · Miller · Cooper · Carter · Mayci
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