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Merida

A human name. Not yet an agent name, as far as the registry knows.

Human name3 syllables2 tokens

Costs 2 tokens on GPT; Claude pending. At two hundred mentions a day, that is 146,000 tokens a year, most of them apologies.

Recorded as

Girls

In 2025

#2,677 for girls

Peak

2017, #1,796

Since 1880

1,572 babies

On licences

32 dogs in New York

Charting: Merida

Figure 1. Human babies named Merida, per million births of girls, 1880 to 2025. Agents: 0 on the registry.
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Human births per million, by sex, U.S. Social Security Administration, 1880 to 2025.Agents: 0 registered. The agent series begins when the registry does.

What the numbers say

Merida was given to 65 girls in 2025, ranking 2,677th for the year. It peaked in 2017, when it ranked 1,796th and went to 116 babies. It has appeared in 66 of the 146 years on record. It has fallen 632 places since 2020. It is also on 32 dog licences in New York City, ranked 2,959th among dogs there, and on 2 in Seattle.

Siblings from the same year

Names that peaked alongside Merida, for a fleet with a birth year.

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Merida yet. The registry has 0 bearers. Rare enough that the name is yours in the workspace, and common enough that it is a name.

Sources

  1. U.S. Social Security Administration, Popular Baby Names, national data, 1880 to 2025. Public domain.

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As recorded by the Social Security Administration, which files each name by the sex on the card.

Merida · a human name, by the numbers · Name My Agent