Meredith Forename
10,262nd
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 99,273 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Curaçao
Meredith Forename Definition:
A male name. a Welsh name, of whicn the first element is probably mor ‘the sea’. It is still used as a christian name, though it is commoner as a surname. Lyford 1655 gives a characteristically fanciful etymology: ‘Meredith, but rather Mere ductus for Mereducius, brought together without mixing.
Read More About This ForenameMeredith Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 100% | 83,550 | 1:4,339 | 658 |
| Australia | - | 4,078 | 1:3,349 | 524 |
| Canada | 100% | 3,341 | 1:9,917 | 1,154 |
| Colombia | 100% | 943 | 1:50,667 | 2,265 |
| England | 60% | 927 | 1:59,982 | 2,666 |
| Philippines | 97% | 885 | 1:119,785 | 6,331 |
| New Zealand | - | 741 | 1:6,122 | 790 |
| Curaçao | 100% | 515 | 1:303 | 57 |
| South Africa | 72% | 472 | 1:115,535 | 8,919 |
| Suriname | 100% | 428 | 1:1,292 | 275 |
| Samoa | - | 274 | 1:712 | 214 |
| Netherlands | 64% | 267 | 1:63,304 | 3,963 |
| Mexico | 98% | 260 | 1:477,479 | 5,489 |
| Peru | 99% | 237 | 1:134,141 | 4,213 |
| Panama | 77% | 215 | 1:18,170 | 1,874 |
| Venezuela | 60% | 189 | 1:159,798 | 6,291 |
| Thailand | 98% | 170 | 1:412,152 | 20,816 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 130 | 1:80,241 | 4,513 |
| China | - | 119 | 1:11,479,460 | 59,745 |
| Germany | 79% | 94 | 1:1,028,488 | 7,955 |
| Wales | 77% | 93 | 1:33,272 | 1,433 |
| Bahamas | - | 92 | 1:4,341 | 756 |
| Costa Rica | 98% | 92 | 1:51,826 | 2,263 |
| France | 100% | 85 | 1:782,004 | 6,849 |
| Scotland | 69% | 81 | 1:66,054 | 1,845 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 76 | 1:46,714 | 1,352 |
| Chile | 74% | 67 | 1:262,794 | 4,243 |
| Aruba | - | 58 | 1:1,789 | 363 |
| Jamaica | - | 40 | 1:72,081 | 3,530 |
| Malaysia | 98% | 40 | 1:761,248 | 29,188 |
| Brazil | 96% | 39 | 1:5,493,235 | 83,314 |
| Nigeria | 67% | 39 | 1:4,552,932 | 69,417 |
| Belgium | 56% | 38 | 1:302,370 | 6,091 |
| Spain | 100% | 38 | 1:1,224,473 | 9,456 |
| Papua New Guinea | 76% | 35 | 1:232,923 | 19,496 |
| Bermuda | - | 30 | 1:2,161 | 469 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 27 | 1:4,065 | 709 |
| Singapore | 100% | 25 | 1:251,482 | 9,031 |
| Indonesia | - | 24 | 1:10,748,486 | 334,727 |
| Ireland | 81% | 23 | 1:201,892 | 3,845 |
| Qatar | 100% | 20 | 1:118,480 | 12,874 |
| Hong Kong | - | 16 | 1:484,545 | 4,322 |
| Sweden | 100% | 14 | 1:704,136 | 15,982 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 13 | 1:631,807 | 9,098 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 12 | 1:47,004 | 1,881 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | 100% | 12 | 1:4,572 | 824 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 73% | 12 | 1:113,452 | 7,514 |
| Guatemala | 100% | 11 | 1:1,464,403 | 5,160 |
| Israel | 100% | 11 | 1:763,902 | 12,174 |
| Guam | - | 10 | 1:16,065 | 1,791 |
| Italy | 100% | 10 | 1:6,106,209 | 25,028 |
| Belize | 60% | 9 | 1:39,368 | 3,319 |
| Fiji | - | 9 | 1:99,153 | 1,900 |
| Ghana | - | 9 | 1:2,998,468 | 5,965 |
| India | 50% | 9 | 1:134,986,441 | 1,652,066 |
| Morocco | - | 9 | 1:3,816,515 | 8,291 |
| Poland | 100% | 9 | 1:4,225,235 | 4,388 |
| Benin | 100% | 8 | 1:1,321,980 | 30,116 |
| Saint Lucia | 88% | 8 | 1:22,227 | 2,229 |
| South Korea | - | 8 | 1:693,053 | 14,847 |
| Austria | 100% | 7 | 1:1,216,314 | 8,086 |
| Cameroon | - | 7 | 1:3,087,215 | 57,282 |
| Denmark | - | 7 | 1:807,071 | 10,426 |
| Honduras | 100% | 7 | 1:1,259,638 | 12,726 |
| Cayman Islands | - | 6 | 1:10,216 | 1,399 |
| El Salvador | - | 6 | 1:1,056,964 | 6,645 |
| Japan | - | 6 | 1:21,331,010 | 46,700 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 6 | 1:1,003,056 | 13,067 |
| Norway | 100% | 6 | 1:855,388 | 12,625 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 5 | 1:368,629 | 2,296 |
| Russia | 100% | 5 | 1:28,846,741 | 73,146 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 5 | 1:4,753,936 | 76,486 |
| Zimbabwe | 80% | 5 | 1:3,084,763 | 72,050 |
| Anguilla | 50% | 4 | 1:3,314 | 681 |
| Argentina | 75% | 4 | 1:10,693,311 | 19,797 |
| Ecuador | - | 4 | 1:4,431,730 | 16,276 |
| Egypt | 100% | 4 | 1:22,975,236 | 27,891 |
| Grenada | 67% | 4 | 1:27,031 | 2,323 |
| Malta | - | 4 | 1:107,340 | 2,111 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 4 | 1:7,703,141 | 17,485 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 4 | 1:5,199,772 | 10,550 |
| Uganda | 100% | 3 | 1:13,652,307 | 74,436 |
| Vietnam | - | 3 | 1:30,874,371 | 5,995 |
| Afghanistan | - | 2 | 1:16,311,758 | 48,279 |
| Barbados | - | 2 | 1:144,894 | 2,643 |
| Belarus | 100% | 2 | 1:4,741,192 | 16,466 |
| Czechia | 85% | 2 | 1:5,328,081 | 8,108 |
| Dominica | - | 2 | 1:37,736 | 863 |
| Kenya | - | 2 | 1:23,153,555 | 56,680 |
| Montserrat | - | 2 | 1:2,438 | 412 |
| Nauru | 100% | 2 | 1:5,964 | 459 |
| Oman | - | 2 | 1:2,054,334 | 8,531 |
| Senegal | - | 2 | 1:7,290,678 | 24,413 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 2 | 1:3,575,996 | 76,635 |
| Zambia | - | 2 | 1:7,927,397 | 45,785 |
| Algeria | - | 1 | 1:38,176,720 | 32,669 |
| American Samoa | - | 1 | 1:55,845 | 3,376 |
| Angola | - | 1 | 1:26,966,606 | 7,835 |
| Bolivia | - | 1 | 1:10,601,404 | 9,299 |
| Botswana | - | 1 | 1:2,184,449 | 21,741 |
| Burundi | - | 1 | 1:9,906,559 | 2,558 |
| Cyprus | - | 1 | 1:871,076 | 5,368 |
| Finland | - | 1 | 1:5,483,183 | 25,487 |
| Greece | - | 1 | 1:10,934,548 | 22,228 |
| Guyana | - | 1 | 1:763,262 | 24,238 |
| Haiti | - | 1 | 1:10,726,953 | 41,696 |
| Iceland | - | 1 | 1:366,017 | 7,938 |
| Isle of Man | - | 1 | 1:85,023 | 723 |
| Ivory Coast | 100% | 1 | 1:23,075,933 | 135,227 |
| Jersey | - | 1 | 1:99,980 | 2,122 |
| Jordan | - | 1 | 1:8,826,774 | 11,126 |
| Kuwait | - | 1 | 1:3,785,264 | 15,388 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 100% | 1 | 1:5,973,277 | 46,622 |
| Liberia | 100% | 1 | 1:4,412,061 | 36,340 |
| North Macedonia | - | 1 | 1:2,090,757 | 15,787 |
| Madagascar | - | 1 | 1:23,629,408 | 6,628 |
| Malawi | - | 1 | 1:17,112,310 | 24,110 |
| Maldives | - | 1 | 1:433,903 | 5,827 |
| Micronesia | - | 1 | 1:106,500 | 1,462 |
| Moldova | - | 1 | 1:3,561,139 | 8,690 |
| Myanmar | - | 1 | 1:51,948,273 | 3,226 |
| Namibia | - | 1 | 1:2,404,179 | 16,970 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 1 | 1:54,668 | 1,803 |
| Portugal | - | 1 | 1:10,410,866 | 12,786 |
| Rwanda | - | 1 | 1:11,371,433 | 4,615 |
| Saint Martin | - | 1 | 1:35,746 | 277 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 1 | 1:7,088,663 | 1,497 |
| Slovakia | - | 1 | 1:5,310,063 | 9,949 |
| Slovenia | - | 1 | 1:2,458,758 | 6,723 |
| Solomon Islands | - | 1 | 1:580,957 | 8,641 |
| Sudan | - | 1 | 1:37,806,975 | 10,689 |
| Turkey | - | 1 | 1:77,801,709 | 91,051 |
The alternate forms: Méredith (1) & Mérédith (17) are calculated separately.
Meredith (62,597) may also be a surname.
Meredith Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A male name. a Welsh name, of whicn the first element is probably mor ‘the sea’. It is still used as a christian name, though it is commoner as a surname. Lyford 1655 gives a characteristically fanciful etymology: ‘Meredith, but rather Mere ductus for Mereducius, brought together without mixing.’
— The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names (1947) by E. G. Withycombe
M. Celtic, ‘sea-protector’: cf., therefore, Murphy and Murtagh. Never very general as a baptismal, it is now mainly a surname.
— Name This Child (1959) by Eric Partridge
The English form of the Welsh name Meredydd.
— Prænomina (1882) by Richard Stephen Charnock
A Celtic name, meaning: Coast guard: roaring of the sea.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
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Sample size: 39 (1901)
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