Given name & surname
Meric
“a great and powerful ruler”
Meric is a variant of Merrick. One English interpretation is “a great and powerful ruler.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Meric is a variant of Merrick. One English interpretation is “a great and powerful ruler.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1995. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Meric through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 176
- 176 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2018
- 12 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #13,249 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −64%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 13,249 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 12 in 2018. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 291 as a first name in 2020; 127 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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