Meridith

Where Meridith comes from

The dictionaries list Meridith as a given name — a female given name from Welsh, variant of Meredith — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Welsh
Along the way
  1. 1939
    First appearance
    #3,429 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1939
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1971
    Peak, #1,125
    104 babies named Meridith — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1985
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,048.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Welsh, variant of Meredith.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.