Unisex name

Merrick

6,311 births (United States, 1880–2025), peaking in 2017. Expression number: 5.

Origin

Anglicisation of Welsh Meurig.

From Wiktionary, entry “Merrick”, text under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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How many babies received it

From the official birth registers.

In the United States

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Peak in 2017: 296 births. 6,311 births from 1880 to 2025. A name given mostly in the 2000s, 2010s and 2020s. It is given to girls (8%) as well as boys (92%). It really came into use around 1962. It is still given: 1,065 births from 2021 to 2025.

Source: Social Security Administration, Popular Baby Names, public domain.

The numbers of the name

Each letter has a value: A = 1, B = 2… I = 9, then J = 1 again (Pythagorean method). We add them up, then reduce to a single digit, except 11, 22 and 33.

M4E5R9R9I9C3K2

■ vowel · ■ consonant

Expression

All the letters: talents, the way you act.

5

freedom, change, movement

4 + 5 + 9 + 9 + 9 + 3 + 2 = 41 → 5

Soul

The vowels: what drives you deep down.

5

freedom, change, movement

5 + 9 = 14 → 5

Personality

The consonants: what others notice first.

9

humanity, generosity, completion

4 + 9 + 9 + 3 + 2 = 27 → 9

Digits missing from the name
1, 6, 7, 8
Most frequent digit
9 · humanity, generosity, completion
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Your name and theirs

The number of each name, and the number of the bond, which comes from adding them together. A symbolic game: what your two names say together, to be read as a metaphor, not as a verdict on your relationship.