Meriah
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 5 babies a year in the US.
Meriah by the numbers
Meriah was given to 5 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 52 babies in 1991, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Meriah
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
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Other names in the records within a letter or two of Meriah. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
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