Merida

Where Merida comes from

Uncertain. Possibly a coinage based on Mary, or transferred from the Spanish place name Mérida.
— Wiktionary's entry for Merida
  • 4 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1916
    First appearance
    #3,919 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1916
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 2017
    Peak, #1,792
    116 babies named Merida — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name originating as a coinage.
Namesakes

No widely known Merida turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

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.