Feminine dossier · first seen 1912

Merita

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Merita
Creator: Social Security Administration

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1955

Peak rank proxy

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Boomer

1912Peak 19552024

Peak year

1955

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

1,121

Merita has moved from ordinary use into the archive. Its peak belongs most strongly to the Boomer naming world, and its absence today gives the name the strange clarity of a cultural fossil.

Your name peaked in 1955, when 46 girls were named Merita.

No girls were recorded with this name in 2024 — at least not five of them (the SSA's reporting floor).

Down 100% from its peak.

All told, about 1,121 Americans have been named Merita and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1912.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationBoomer

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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