Mertis
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Mertis has been given to 476 babies in the U.S. since 1908. 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 1923, with 23 recorded.
Babies named Mertis, 1961
1 in 690,000
Mertis 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Mertis?
Mertis had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1961, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1961
- 1 in 690,000
- 6 of 4,142,426 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 336,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1961
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 478,553 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Mertis sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1961 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 478,553 children born in 1961 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mertis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Mertiss were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Mertis was born before 1929 — so the typical Mertis is around 96 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 32.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 32.4%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 29
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 32.2% of all recorded uses (150).
Is Mertis 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 1923 (23)
- Years since peak
- 102
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 42.3% average annual change
Spellings of Mertis
Mertis is not the most common spelling — Bertie is, with 20.0% against Mertis's 0.68%.
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 Mertis is used
Across 1910–2025, Mertis was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 530,652 across all states with data. It was least common in Louisiana (1 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. Mertis has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Mertis by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Mertis
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Mertis
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.