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Merab

#10,626 in 2025Girls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Merab has been given to 72 babies in the U.S. since 2000. In 2025 it ranked #10,626 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Merab, 2025

1 in 368,000

Merab over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Merab: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Merab means

Merab has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Merab

One of the source’s documented entries for Merab records a meaning of abundant.

A separate documented entry treats Merab as a form of Mehrab. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 72 girls were recorded with the name Merab between 2000 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2023; its best national rank was #8,802 in 2023.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Merab?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 179,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,626
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Merab sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Merab. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Merabs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Merab was born before 2022 — so the typical Merab is around 3 today.

Median birth year
2022
About 3 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
58.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
72
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Choose a decade

2020s — 58.3% of all recorded uses (42).

Is Merab rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+1,165
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
75.0%
Peak was 2023 (12)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,802
2023

Spellings of Merab

Merab is not the most common spelling — Megan is, with 54.4% against Merab's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Merab is used

Across 1910–2025, Merab was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,501,280 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Merab has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Merab around the world

Where Merab ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2008–2025
    #3,705
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Merab by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,626
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#8,802
2023
Peak year
2023
12 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
72
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Merab

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Merab

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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