Meridian
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- meh-RID-ee-un
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #10,104 for girls
Meridian is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “midday, highest point”. In 2025 it ranked 10,104th for girls in the US (9 babies).
What does Meridian mean?
English: English word, from Latin meridianus 'of midday'
“midday, highest point”
From the English word for a line of longitude, like the Greenwich prime meridian.
Is Meridian a girl's or a boy's name?
Meridian is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Meridian in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #10,104among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 9about 1 in 180,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 25% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 9 girls in the US were named Meridian, making it the 10,104th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,554th. Its busiest year was 2008, with 20 girls. It first appears in the records in 1992.
2025 had fewer girls named Meridian than any year since 2016.
Half of all the girls named Meridian in the US since 1880 were born between 2000 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
Meridian in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,104 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,551 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,635 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,674 |
| 2021 | 11 | #8,973 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,554 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,134 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,788 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,804 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,776 |
| 2015 | 12 | #8,926 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,063 |
| 2013 | 9 | #10,995 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,706 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,339 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,214 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,375 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,556 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,390 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,606 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,123 |
| 2004 | 7 | #12,754 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,420 |
| 2002 | 13 | #7,810 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,095 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,202 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,478 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,714 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,224 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,059 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,509 |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,771 |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 9 | #8,726 |
Nicknames for Meridian
- Meri 9 girls in the US in 2025
Names like Meridian
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
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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, “Meridian: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/meridian, updated 20 October 2026.