Meredith Boy Name

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The name Meredith is of Welsh origin, and means great leader. The table below indicates the number of times the name Meredith has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Meredith**
Use of the Name Meredith for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
3,195	0	0	0	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Meredith has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Meredith first appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1883, which is the first year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Meredith**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1883	999	5
1884
1885
1886
1887
1888
1889
1890
1891
1892
1893	990	6
1894
1895
1896
1897
1898
1899
1900
1901	830	8
1902	841	9
1903
1904	937	8
1905	891	9
1906	978	8
1907	912	10
1908	701	15
1909	667	17
1910	847	14	890	24
1911	850	16
1912	744	34
1913	718	42	877	37
1914	731	52	950	39
1915	618	87	951	49
1916	730	69	834	66
1917	708	74	873	63
1918	639	93	786	83
1919	726	77	874	65
1920	615	106	837	75
1921	645	100	736	99
1922	664	95	763	93
1923	788	71	815	81
1924	768	77	826	82
1925	715	82	772	92
1926	817	66	797	83
1927	750	77	743	93
1928	680	87	729	95
1929	813	64	706	99
1930	784	67	724	94
1931	745	69	808	71
1932	867	55	719	89
1933	873	51	712	84
1934	852	55	567	128
1935	784	63	564	129
1936	715	70	506	165
1937	845	53	540	152
1938	699	76	477	193
1939	841	53	480	194
1940	671	82	525	172
1941	578	105	455	231
1942	657	96	441	273
1943	706	82	405	327
1944	792	63	390	328
1945	813	59	405	308
1946	717	83	422	333
1947	714	93	442	346
1948	840	66	469	294
1949	919	57	475	289
1950	941	54	468	305
1951	882	63	440	358
1952	812	75	475	315
1953	875	67	470	329
1954	956	60	530	280
1955			533	299
1956			549	290
1957			636	238
1958			670	218
1959			617	260
1960			643	247
1961			637	254
1962			622	262
1963			751	189
1964			566	303
1965			512	345
1966			509	347
1967			502	356
1968			401	538
1969			265	1,092
1970			233	1,353
1971			197	1,503
1972			197	1,433
1973			178	1,518
1974			175	1,515
1975			181	1,432
1976			173	1,465
1977			153	1,765
1978			146	1,882
1979			143	1,961
1980			140	2,070
1981			140	2,041
1982			150	1,950
1983			148	1,939
1984			148	1,932
1985			149	1,957
1986			150	1,928
1987			149	1,813
1988			152	1,852
1989			168	1,702
1990			190	1,557
1991			199	1,493
1992			199	1,464
1993			222	1,249
1994			230	1,231
1995			226	1,244
1996			237	1,180
1997			262	1,107
1998			280	1,111
1999			275	1,139
2000			293	1,089
2001			323	954
2002			357	832
2003			362	839
2004			331	948
Totals:		3,195		64,791

During the last 125 years, parents have used Meredith as a boy's name about 4% of the time and more frequently (about 95% of the time) as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Meredith appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 55 times during the last 125 years.

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