Meri
#10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births
- Peak · girls
- 1955 · 74 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,502since 1917
Meri over time
Rank among girls' names. Meri has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,107 | 9 |
| 2024 | #7,967 | 13 |
| 2023 | #8,055 | 13 |
| 2022 | #12,243 | 7 |
| 2021 | #7,630 | 14 |
| 2020 | #11,090 | 8 |
| 2019 | #9,736 | 10 |
| 2018 | #9,151 | 11 |
| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 |
| 2016 | #8,393 | 13 |
| 2015 | #11,835 | 8 |
| 2014 | #11,931 | 8 |
| 2013 | #13,150 | 7 |
| 2012 | #7,456 | 16 |
| 2011 | #12,153 | 8 |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 |
| 2009 | #13,704 | 7 |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 |
| 2007 | #8,520 | 14 |
| 2006 | #10,611 | 10 |
| 2005 | #7,891 | 14 |
| 2004 | #7,391 | 15 |
| 2003 | #9,048 | 11 |
| 2002 | #6,392 | 17 |
| 2001 | #7,317 | 14 |
| 2000 | #4,791 | 24 |
| 1999 | #8,805 | 10 |
| 1998 | #6,073 | 16 |
| 1997 | #6,483 | 14 |
| 1996 | #9,581 | 8 |
| 1995 | #4,217 | 24 |
| 1994 | #7,097 | 12 |
| 1993 | #7,498 | 11 |
| 1992 | #4,849 | 20 |
| 1991 | #3,936 | 26 |
| 1990 | #5,549 | 16 |
| 1989 | #5,545 | 15 |
| 1988 | #5,598 | 14 |
| 1987 | #6,335 | 11 |
| 1986 | #4,347 | 18 |
| 1985 | #4,635 | 16 |
| 1984 | #3,613 | 22 |
| 1983 | #3,806 | 20 |
| 1982 | #3,898 | 20 |
| 1981 | #3,147 | 27 |
| 1980 | #4,327 | 17 |
| 1979 | #2,724 | 32 |
| 1978 | #3,283 | 23 |
| 1977 | #2,838 | 28 |
| 1976 | #2,292 | 36 |
| 1975 | #2,411 | 33 |
| 1974 | #2,213 | 36 |
| 1973 | #1,805 | 47 |
| 1972 | #1,989 | 40 |
| 1971 | #1,937 | 44 |
| 1970 | #1,584 | 60 |
| 1969 | #1,835 | 45 |
| 1968 | #1,776 | 44 |
| 1967 | #1,441 | 59 |
| 1966 | #1,568 | 51 |
| 1965 | #1,394 | 62 |
| 1964 | #1,419 | 63 |
| 1963 | #1,250 | 77 |
| 1962 | #1,266 | 76 |
| 1961 | #1,168 | 89 |
| 1960 | #1,236 | 78 |
| 1959 | #1,244 | 74 |
| 1958 | #1,630 | 43 |
| 1957 | #1,491 | 51 |
| 1956 | #1,351 | 59 |
| 1955 | #1,157 | 74 |
| 1954 | #1,333 | 56 |
| 1953 | #1,225 | 62 |
| 1952 | #1,487 | 42 |
| 1951 | #1,528 | 38 |
| 1950 | #1,375 | 44 |
| 1949 | #1,353 | 46 |
| 1948 | #1,499 | 38 |
| 1947 | #1,438 | 42 |
| 1946 | #1,239 | 48 |
| 1945 | #1,450 | 31 |
| 1944 | #1,916 | 20 |
| 1943 | #1,834 | 22 |
| 1942 | #3,194 | 9 |
| 1941 | #3,030 | 9 |
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| 1937 | #4,255 | 5 |
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| 1934 | #4,286 | 5 |
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| 1932 | #4,411 | 5 |
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| 1924 | #4,002 | 7 |
| 1923 | #4,376 | 6 |
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| 1920 | #3,957 | 7 |
| 1919 | #4,251 | 6 |
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| 1917 | #4,594 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Meri! It came in at #4,594, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1917–1918, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Meri is popular in 1955
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Wisconsin#389 · 1 in 5,209
- Michigan#815 · 1 in 17,899
- New York#868 · 1 in 18,154
- California#1,081 · 1 in 20,881
Best ever in a state: #311 in Washington, 1946.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Wisconsin | #389 | 8 | 1 in 5,209 |
| Michigan | #815 | 5 | 1 in 17,899 |
| New York | #868 | 9 | 1 in 18,154 |
| California | #1,081 | 7 | 1 in 20,881 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Meri
- 2,140 spots since 2024 (#7,967 → #10,107)
- 983 spots since 2020 (#11,090 → #10,107)
- 1,728 spots since 2015 (#11,835 → #10,107)
- Debuted 1917
- Peaked 1955 at #1,157 (74 births)
- Births halved by 1974, 19 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 22,680 girls born in 1961 were named Meri (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 178,585 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,157 in 1955, was only 1 in 26,423 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 25.7% of all girls named Meri (644) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 11 | #4,251 (1919) | #4,423 |
| 1920s | 20 | #3,957 (1920) | #4,112 |
| 1930s | 15 | #4,255 (1937) | #4,317 |
| 1940s | 265 | #1,239 (1946) | #1,884 |
| 1950s | 543 | #1,157 (1955) | #1,382 |
| 1960s | 644 | #1,168 (1961) | #1,435 |
| 1970s | 379 | #1,584 (1970) | #2,308 |
| 1980s | 180 | #3,147 (1981) | #4,525 |
| 1990s | 157 | #3,936 (1991) | #6,409 |
| 2000s | 133 | #4,791 (2000) | #8,950 |
| 2010s | 91 | #7,456 (2012) | #11,670 |
| 2020s | 64 | #7,630 (2021) | #9,515 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Meri in 1955
Top girls' names in 1955
More about 1955
girls
1,955,277 girls got a published name in 1955; 1 in 26,423 of them was named Meri, which outranked 82.8% of the 6,732 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,150Meg75
- #1,150Pauletta75
- #1,150Roxana75
- #1,157Meri74
- #1,157Cordelia74
- #1,157Dreama74
- #1,157Germaine74
- #1,167Beatriz73
- #1,167Ellyn73
- #1,167Gaynell73
Tied with 9 names at #1,157; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.