Merrick
Merrick is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 165 births. Its best rank was 818th, in 2018.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1650.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 2018274 births
- Best rank
- #818in 2018
- Since 1905
- 6,117people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,615 boys have been named Merrick in the United States since 1905, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2018, with 274 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2010, and the 2010s alone account for 34%. It has spent 4 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 502 girls have also been given it, 8.2% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Merrick | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 5 | |
| 1910s | 46 | |
| 1920s | 69 | |
| 1930s | 52 | |
| 1940s | 120 | |
| 1950s | 163 | |
| 1960s | 172 | |
| 1970s | 241 | |
| 1980s | 205 | |
| 1990s | 463 | |
| 2000s | 1,175 | |
| 2010s | 1,898 | |
| 2020s | 1,006 |
In 2018, its biggest year
Merrick was the 818th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2018 were Liam, Noah, William, James and Oliver. See all of 2018.
Names that rose and fell with Merrick
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Leonardopeak 2019
- Nolanpeak 2015
- Omaripeak 2018
- Ibrahimpeak 2024
- Noampeak 2024
- Yasinpeak 2020
- Hestonpeak 2016
- Abbaspeak 2018
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.