Meri

Where Meri comes from

The dictionaries list Meri as a given name — a diminutive of the female given name Merida — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1917
    First appearance
    #4,594 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1955
    Peak, #1,157
    74 babies named Meri — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1974
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,213.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Merida.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Meri hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.