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How popular is “Meri” in the USA?

Number of people named “Meri” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Meri” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Meri” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Meri” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Meri” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Meri” by birth year

This chart shows how “Meri” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1917 5 0.000002492 5 100%
1919 6 0.000002843 6 100%
1920 7 0.000003094 7 100%
1923 6 0.000002606 6 100%
1924 7 0.000002939 7 100%
1932 5 0.000002368 5 100%
1934 5 0.000002408 5 100%
1937 5 0.000002347 5 100%
1941 9 0.000003694 9 100%
1942 9 0.000003295 9 100%
1943 22 0.000007794 22 100%
1944 20 0.000007435 20 100%
1945 31 0.000011685 31 100%
1946 48 0.000015022 48 100%
1947 42 0.000011659 42 100%
1948 38 0.000011006 38 100%
1949 46 0.0000132 46 100%
1950 44 0.000012559 44 100%
1951 38 0.000010316 38 100%
1952 42 0.000011058 42 100%
1953 62 0.000016089 62 100%
1954 56 0.000014068 56 100%
1955 74 0.000018431 74 100%
1956 59 0.00001431 59 100%
1957 51 0.000012137 51 100%
1958 43 0.000010402 43 100%
1959 74 0.000017797 74 100%
1960 78 0.000018778 78 100%
1961 89 0.000021486 89 100%
1962 76 0.000018833 76 100%
1963 77 0.000019453 77 100%
1964 63 0.000016205 63 100%
1965 62 0.000017101 62 100%
1966 51 0.000014673 51 100%
1967 59 0.000017379 59 100%
1968 44 0.000013024 44 100%
1969 45 0.000012948 45 100%
1970 60 0.000016637 60 100%
1971 44 0.000012819 44 100%
1972 40 0.000012727 40 100%
1973 47 0.000015579 47 100%
1974 36 0.000011842 36 100%
1975 33 0.000010929 33 100%
1976 36 0.000011864 36 100%
1977 28 0.000008815 28 100%
1978 23 0.000007247 23 100%
1979 32 0.000009618 32 100%
1980 17 0.000004935 17 100%
1981 27 0.000007805 27 100%
1982 20 0.000005701 20 100%
1983 20 0.000005775 20 100%
1984 22 0.000006306 22 100%
1985 16 0.000004483 16 100%
1986 18 0.00000506 18 100%
1987 11 0.000003051 11 100%
1988 14 0.000003789 14 100%
1989 15 0.000003902 15 100%
1990 16 0.000004048 16 100%
1991 26 0.000006675 26 100%
1992 20 0.000005207 20 100%
1993 11 0.000002918 11 100%
1994 12 0.000003228 12 100%
1995 24 0.000006554 24 100%
1996 8 0.000002193 8 100%
1997 14 0.000003861 14 100%
1998 16 0.00000435 16 100%
1999 10 0.000002707 10 100%
2000 24 0.000006349 24 100%
2001 14 0.00000374 14 100%
2002 17 0.000004548 17 100%
2003 11 0.000002893 11 100%
2004 15 0.000003926 15 100%
2005 14 0.000003641 14 100%
2006 10 0.000002528 10 100%
2007 14 0.000003502 14 100%
2008 7 0.000001781 7 100%
2009 7 0.000001832 7 100%
2010 5 0.000001353 5 100%
2011 8 0.000002187 8 100%
2012 16 0.000004375 16 100%
2013 7 0.00000192 7 100%
2014 8 0.000002158 8 100%
2015 8 0.000002162 8 100%
2016 13 0.000003543 13 100%
2017 5 0.000001398 5 100%
2018 11 0.000003129 11 100%
2019 10 0.000002881 10 100%
2020 8 0.000002395 8 100%
2021 14 0.000004132 14 100%
2022 7 0.000002069 7 100%
2023 13 0.000003926 13 100%
2024 13 0.000003906 13 100%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Meri:

  1. Merete
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  3. Mergen
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  5. Mergim
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  7. Meria
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  9. Merial
  10. Meriam
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