Meritt
Girl · MAIR-it · English
Meritt is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “boundary gate”. In 2025 it ranked 8,858th for girls in the US (11 babies).
What does Meritt mean?
English: spelling of Merritt; English surname from a place name
“boundary gate”
From an English surname taken from Merriott in Somerset; it also brings to mind the word merit.
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Meaning borrowed from Merritt.
Is Meritt a girl's or a boy's name?
Meritt is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 11 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Meritt in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #8,858among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 11about 1 in 150,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 11 girls in the US were named Meritt, making it the 8,858th most popular name for girls. It first appears in the records in 1997.
2025 had the most girls named Meritt of any year since it first appeared, in 1997.
Half of all the girls named Meritt in the US since 1880 were born between 2016 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 426 girls in the US were given Meritt or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #674, up from #8,858 for this spelling alone.
Meritt in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #8,858 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,472 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,164 |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,586 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,246 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,442 |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,801 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,120 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,109 |
| 2015 | 9 | #10,861 |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,552 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,719 |
Names like Meritt
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
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