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Mert

#4,339 in 2025Boys' name

Male human

Mert has been given to 554 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #4,339 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 32 recorded.

Babies named Mert, 2025

1 in 138,000

Mert over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mert: meaning, origin, and history

Male human

Persian

What Mert means

Mert means “male human”, associated with mert.

Origin, language, and formation

Mert is used in Turkish. Its origins include Persian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Turkish, Mert is pronounced /mært/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 554 boys were recorded with the name Mert between 1915 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 32 in 2018; its best national rank was #3,488 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,369 in 2020 to #4,339 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,829 in 2015 to #4,339 in 2025.

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 Mert?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 138,000
24 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 71,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,339
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
95,747 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mert sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 95,747 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mert. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Merts were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mert was born before 2012 — so the typical Mert is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
39.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
80.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
523
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 39.2% of all recorded uses (217).

Is Mert 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
+2,025
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+30
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+490
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.20×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
75.0%
Peak was 2018 (32)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,488
2018

Spellings of Mert

Mert is not the most common spelling — Mark is, with 69.0% against Mert's 0.03%.

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 Mert is used

Across 1910–2025, Mert was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 707,598 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New Jersey1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Mert has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mert around the world

Where Mert 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
    1996–2025
    #1,897
    in 2025
  • France
    2007–2023
    #6,927
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2004–2017
    #2,944
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    2007–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Mert by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,339
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 30
Best rank ever
#3,488
2018
Peak year
2018
32 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
554
Count in 2025
24

Names similar to Mert

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

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Sibling names for Mert

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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