Meredith

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Meredith: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Meredith: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #333 in 2020, and it stood at #638 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
35times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#333highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#753
1997	#565
1998	#846
1999	#721
2000	#804
2001	#871
2002	#1442
2003	#844
2004	#1072
2005	#1295
2006	#678
2007	#623
2008	#650
2009	#638
2010	#613
2011	#645
2012	#701
2013	#663
2014	#535
2015	#607
2016	#630
2017	#491
2018	#523
2019	#537
2020	#571
2021	#517
2022	#550
2023	#671
2024	#638

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #638 among girls in England and Wales, #898 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #753 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2016–2020
Highest recorded position: #333 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2020 (recorded 2016–2020).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #638 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Meredith appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,527 births with the name.

Meredith across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Meredith's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#753 (1996)	#491 (2017)	#638 (2024)	29 of 29	1,527 (1996–2024)	89 (2017)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#353 (2016)	#333 (2020)	#333 (2020)	4 of 5	14 (2016–2020)	4 (2016)

Meredith by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Meredith in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	134	4 of 10	34
2000s	355	10 of 10	36
2010sbusiest	704	10 of 10	70
2020s	334	5 of 10	67

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 70 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2005 and 2006, when recorded births rose by 28, from 18 to 46.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Meredith appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #333 in Northern Ireland in 2020.

Meredith's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#638	61	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#671	54	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#550	71	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#517	79	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#571	69	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#537	75	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#523	81	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#491	89	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#630	67	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#607	69	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#535	79	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#663	60	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#701	59	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#645	62	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#613	63	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#638	58	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#650	57	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#623	56	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#678	46	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1295	18	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1072	22	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#844	31	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1442	13	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#871	26	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#804	28	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#721	32	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#846	26	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2901	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#565	46	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#753	30	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#333	4	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	female	#434	3	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#432	3	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#353	4	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#898	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #333, first reached in 2020.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 89 births, registered in England and Wales in 2017.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2016, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Mercedes · #327, 30y
Mercy · #333, 29y
Merete · #33, 61y
Merethe · #69, 54y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Farhan · #333, 29y
Jannat · #333, 29y
Naya · #333, 27y
Rion · #334, 26y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Farhan · #333, 29y
Hania · #333, 30y
Jannat · #333, 29y
Mercy · #333, 29y

Meredith was ranked #333 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2020. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Meredith and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Meredith without appearing here.

Meredith moved ahead of

Sofie Compare
In 2005 they stood at #1295 and #1121 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #678 and #1585.
Suzanne Compare
In 2005 they stood at #1295 and #745 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #678 and #1585.
Judith Compare
In 2002 they stood at #1442 and #1372 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #844 and #1722.
Kim Compare
In 2005 they stood at #1295 and #1295 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #678 and #1502.

Moved ahead of Meredith

Beau Compare
In 2001 they stood at #871 and #1107 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #1442 and #809.
Ivy Compare
In 2001 they stood at #871 and #962 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #1442 and #998.
Harper Compare
In 2011 they stood at #645 and #858 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #701 and #284.
Mila Compare
In 2010 they stood at #613 and #616 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #645 and #261.

Moved the opposite way to Meredith

Dianne Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Meredith went from #1442 to #638 while Dianne went from #4137 to #5891.

Moved the same way as Meredith

Eabha Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Meredith went from #1072 to #638 and Eabha from #4598 to #1262.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #333 in Northern Ireland in 2020. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Meredith

Meredith at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Meredith across 2 official records

Meredith by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Meredith at a glance

Meredith across 2 official records

Meredith by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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