Merita
Merita is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 195546 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1912
- 1,121people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,121 girls have been named Merita in the United States since 1912, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1955, with 46 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 46 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1951, and the 1950s alone account for 27%.
By decade
In 1955, its biggest year
Merita was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1955 were Mary, Deborah, Linda, Debra and Susan. See all of 1955.
Names that rose and fell with Merita
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Carlenepeak 1955
- Peggypeak 1958
- Joannepeak 1947
- Delorsepeak 1958
- Darleenpeak 1958
- Charleanpeak 1952
- Marileepeak 1947
- Janetpeak 1954
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.