Name Awesome

Merideth

Girls' name

Variant of Meredith

Merideth has been given to 1,761 babies in the U.S. since 1916. 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 1972, with 61 recorded.

Babies named Merideth, 2023

1 in 552,000

Merideth over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Merideth: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Meredith

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Merideth means

Merideth is a variant of Meredith.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Merideth is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈmɛɹ.ə.dɪθ/ for Merideth.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Merideth → Meredith. The family’s meaning is “great lord”, recorded in English with the source elements Maredudd.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Meredith.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,755 girls were recorded with the name Merideth between 1916 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 61 in 1972; its best national rank was #1,533 in 1972.

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Merideth between 1927 and 1927. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1927; its best national rank was #4,040 in 1927.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Merideth?

Merideth had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 552,000
6 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 267,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
382,940 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Merideth 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 2023 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 382,940 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Merideth. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Merideths were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Merideth was born before 1980 — so the typical Merideth is around 45 today.

Median birth year
1980
About 45 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
28.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
16.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,628
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 28.1% of all recorded uses (494).

Is Merideth 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
—
Not ranked then
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
0%
Peak was 1972 (61)
Years since peak
53
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,533
1972

Spellings of Merideth

Merideth is not the most common spelling — Meredith is, with 87.5% against Merideth's 2.0%.

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 Merideth is used

Across 1910–2025, Merideth was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 420,711 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Colorado1 in —
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in —
  4. 4Michigan1 in —
  5. 5Mississippi1 in —
  6. 6New York1 in —
  7. 7Ohio1 in —
  8. 8Texas1 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. Merideth has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Merideth around the world

Where Merideth 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 Australia
    1946–1986
    #667
    in 1986

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Merideth by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,533
1972
Peak year
1972
61 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
1,755
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,040
1927
Peak year
1927
6 that year
First recorded
1927
Last recorded
1927
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Merideth

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

MeribethMeredethMercedezMerrillLilibethMerrilyMerrileeMerrittArisbethArizbethMeridianSarabethElizbethMerlynMeridaNazarethMeridithAnnabethMerribethMerariMerridethJamilethMerrickAlizabeth

Sibling names for Merideth

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

Explore around Merideth

Top names of 1972, Merideth's peak yearThe 1970s in fullOther names that peaked in 1972Girls' names starting with M