How Many People Are Named Merita?
people named Merita are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 487,567 people in the US has this name
Based on 1,121 babies named Merita in Social Security records from 1912 to 1999, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
46 births
Trend
Last year given
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Means "meritorious" in Esperanto.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Related & Similar Names
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Merita in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Merita alive today is about 66 years old, and 74% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 59 and 76 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Merita first appears in the records in 1912 and was given most often in 1955, to 46 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 1999.
Babies given the name each year, 1912 to 1999
🏆 Rank History
Merita has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #1,459, in 1940.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #1,459 (1940) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,918 in the 1950s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Merita alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Merita were born in Georgia than in any other state: about 29 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Merita was given about 14.9 times as often in North Carolina.
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