Meric
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- MAIR-ik
- US rank, 2025
- #12,003 for boys
Meric is a boys' name. In 2025 it ranked 12,003rd for boys in the US (5 babies).
What does Meric mean?
Uncertain; possibly Merrick or Turkish Meric
In Turkish, Meric is the name of the Maritsa river, which forms part of the border between Greece and Turkey.
Is Meric a girl's or a boy's name?
Meric is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Meric in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 12,003rd among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 340,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 5 boys in the US were named Meric, making it the 12,003rd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,062nd. Its busiest year was 2018, with 12 boys. It first appears in the records in 1995.
Half of all the boys named Meric in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 197 boys in the US were given Meric or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,003, up from #12,003 for this spelling alone.
Meric in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,003 |
| 2024 | 5 | #12,341 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 6 | #10,794 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,062 |
| 2019 | 7 | #9,750 |
| 2018 | 12 | #6,699 |
| 2017 | 8 | #8,835 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,141 |
| 2015 | 7 | #9,562 |
| 2014 | 10 | #7,557 |
| 2013 | 8 | #8,784 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,152 |
| 2011 | 7 | #9,593 |
| 2010 | 6 | #10,759 |
| 2009 | 10 | #7,687 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 10 | #7,586 |
| 2006 | 5 | #12,048 |
| 2005 | 9 | #7,633 |
| 2004 | 7 | #8,921 |
| 2003 | 8 | #7,824 |
| 2002 | 8 | #7,636 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 5 | #9,623 |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 6 | #7,785 |
Names like Meric
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Gael, Maddox, Milo, Axel, Hudson, Miller, Beckett, Mason, Easton, Archer, Memphis, Mateo
Other spellings of Meric
Names related to Meric
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Meric: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/meric, updated 20 October 2026.