Merritt
Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer2025 rank
#1,505
up +395 places
2025 births
117
up +33 births
All-time births
6,151
2% of them in 2025
More common than
97%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1924
- 121 births
- Best rank
- #400
- in 1899
- First recorded
- 1880
- #418 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1957
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 146 of 146
- unbroken
Top five years
- 1924121#580Peak
- 2025117#1,505
- 1921115#594
- 1920107#612
- 1922107#623
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #400 in 1899 · peak births 121 in 1924
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 66% boys■ 34% girls
6,151 boys · 3,231 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Merritt has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.