Meri
Meri is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 13 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 130.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 196189 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1917
- 2,493people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,493 girls have been named Meri in the United States since 1917, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1961, with 89 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1965, and the 1960s alone account for 26%.
By decade
| Decade | girls named Meri | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 11 | |
| 1920s | 20 | |
| 1930s | 15 | |
| 1940s | 265 | |
| 1950s | 543 | |
| 1960s | 644 | |
| 1970s | 379 | |
| 1980s | 180 | |
| 1990s | 157 | |
| 2000s | 133 | |
| 2010s | 91 | |
| 2020s | 55 |
In 1961, its biggest year
Meri was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1961 were Mary, Lisa, Susan, Linda and Karen. See all of 1961.
Names that rose and fell with Meri
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Tonipeak 1960
- Carenpeak 1957
- Lynettepeak 1965
- Lynnettepeak 1964
- Carlapeak 1962
- Tonapeak 1964
- Jerripeak 1957
- Tonniepeak 1963
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.