Meriwether

Girls' name

Transferred from a surname; no fixed literal translation

Meriwether has been given to 23 babies in the U.S. since 2009. 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 2017, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Meriwether, 2017

1 in 511,000

Meriwether over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Meriwether: meaning, origin, and history

Transferred from a surname; no fixed literal translation

surname transfer

What Meriwether means

Meriwether is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Meriwether is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Meriwether is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 23 girls were recorded with the name Meriwether between 2009 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2017; its best national rank was #13,634 in 2017.

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.

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How common is Meriwether?

Meriwether had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017: 1 in 511,000; 7 of 3,577,106 births
Among girls only: 1 in 247,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2017: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 354,210 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Meriwether 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 2017 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 354,210 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Meriwether. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Meriwethers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Meriwether was born before 2016 — so the typical Meriwether is around 9 today.

Median birth year: 2016; About 9 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 78.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 23; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 78.3% of all recorded uses (18).

Is Meriwether 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 2017 (7)
Years since peak: 8; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 28.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #13,634; 2017

Meriwether 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: #13,634; 2017
Peak year: 2017; 7 that year
First recorded: 2009
Last recorded: 2017
All-time count: 23
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Meriwether

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Sibling names for Meriwether

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

For a sister

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For a brother

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