Merica
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Merica has been given to 229 babies in the U.S. since 1920. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1976, with 19 recorded.
Babies named Merica, 2020
1 in 668,000
Merica over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Merica?
Merica had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2020
- 1 in 668,000
- 5 of 3,342,313 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 323,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2020
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 463,344 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Merica sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 463,344 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Merica. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Mericas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Merica was born before 1985 — so the typical Merica is around 40 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 27.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 26.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 218
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 27.5% of all recorded uses (63).
Is Merica 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1976 (19)
- Years since peak
- 49
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.5% average annual change
Spellings of Merica
Merica is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 39.1% against Merica's 0.02%.
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.
Merica around the world
Where Merica 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.
- South Australia1978–1978#626in 1978
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Merica by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Merica
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Merica
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.