Mérida
loc · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries
Mérida is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- AUAustralia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 230 (measured from records)
no count published
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Merida in ES Spain, VE Venezuela, MX Mexico.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mérida counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 4.5K | Mérida | 230 |
| MX Mexico | — | 314 | Merida | 3 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 1.2K | Merida | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 3 | Mérida | 30 |
| ES Spain | — | 5.1K | Merida | 40 |
| AR Argentina | — | 2K | — | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 389 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Mérida is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, Mérida (a city in Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, the city Mérida in Spain's western region Estremadura, in Badajoz province
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Jesús Mérida Pérezb. 1891ESSpanish bishop
- María Méridab. 1925ESSpanish singer
- Edilberto Mérida Rodríguezb. 1927PEPeruvian artist
- Victoria Abrilb. 1959ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actress
- Oliverio Martínezb. 1962GTnot in their usual nameGuatemalan businessperson (1962-2001)
- Susanna Mèrida Lópezb. 1976ESSpanish politician
- Raúl Méridab. 1988ESSpanish actor
- Fran Méridab. 1990ESSpanish association football player
- Sara Méridab. 1993ESfootballer
- Daniel Méridab. 2004ESSpanish tennis player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Mérida have the most bearers?
- Mérida is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled mérida.
What do you want to know about Mérida?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%A9ridaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mérida”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.