Name meaning & stats
Merritt
Merritt. 6,703 US babies since 1940, peak 2025.
What it means
No agreed meaning on record
In US birth records
Peak year: 2025
6,703 US babies were named Merritt between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Merritt (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 93% of the family
- Merritt 93%
- Mert 7%
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2025)