Merliah
#8,182 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Merliah has been given to 115 babies in the U.S. since 2012. In 2025 it ranked #8,182 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 17 recorded.
Babies named Merliah, 2025
1 in 255,000
Merliah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Merliah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 255,000
- 13 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 124,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #8,182
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 176,762 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Merliah sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Merliah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Merliahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Merliah was born before 2019 — so the typical Merliah is around 6 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 57.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 115
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 57.4% of all recorded uses (66).
Is Merliah 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
- +594
- 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
- 76.5%
- Peak was 2019 (17)
- Years since peak
- 6
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 36.8% average annual change
Spellings of Merliah
Merliah is not the most common spelling — Mariah is, with 73.0% against Merliah's 0.07%.
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.
Merliah around the world
Where Merliah 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 & Wales2024–2025#4,867in 2025
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Merliah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Merliah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Merliah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.