How popular is the name Meredith?

Meredith ranks 417th among girls' names in US records, with 85,863 births since 1895. Over the past decade it accounts for 5,725.

Is Meredith a unisex name?

No. Meredith is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1980, when 2,206 children were given the name. It has been in use for 130 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Meridith, Merideth. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.

Girl name#417 of girl names

Pronounced M EH1 R IH0 D IH0 TH (ARPABET)

Meredith is a girls' name, and first appears in 1895. It has been given to 85,863 children — the 417th most common girls' name on record.

Its use has been broadly flat across the past two decades. Its best single year was 1980, when 2,206 children were given it.

Two other spellings are counted in that total — Meridith and Merideth — because they are pronounced identically.

1980Girls: 2,206Boys: 16

These spellings sound identical to Meredith and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Meredith?: Meredith ranks 417th among girls' names in US records, with 85,863 births since 1895. Over the past decade it accounts for 5,725.
Is Meredith a unisex name?: No. Meredith is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Meredith most popular?: 1980, when 2,206 children were given the name. It has been in use for 130 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
How else is Meredith spelled?: Meridith, Merideth. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.