Meri
About Meri
Upbeat name that cheers you as soon as you hear it. One famous bearer is Maori feminist Meri Te Tai Mangakāhia.
As Finnish name, it is connected to the sea.
Pronounced MER-i.
As of October 2026, Meri ranked #10632 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #1161 in 1955.
Editor: Sophie Kihm
Sources: US popularity data is from the Social Security Administration. Meanings and origins are from Nameberry's name references.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | 0 |
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Meri on lists
Famous Meris
- Meri Te Tai Mangakāhia
New Zealand suffragist
- Meri Caroline Brown
American reality TV personality; one,time legal wife of Kody Brown on "Sister Wives"
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Croatian pop singer
- Meri St. Mary
American punk poet
- Meri Marjatta Utrio
Finnish translator and editor
- Meri Wilson
American pop singer
- Meri von KleinSmid
American composer and sound artist
Meri in pop culture
- "The Meri
" science fiction novel by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff