Merian
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 20 countries
/meɾjan/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Merian is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 34K(inferred from the name graph)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 108K
- BRBrazil1 in 119K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 132 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,400 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Merian counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Merian | 32 |
| BR Brazil | 1,775 | 1 in 119K | 2K | Merian | 52 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Merian | 5 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 403K | — | Merian | 7 |
| IN India | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 3.1M | — | Merian | 5 |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈87 est. | ≈1 in 131K | — | Merian | 12 |
| CR Costa Rica | 47 | 1 in 108K | 47 | Merian | 4 |
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)Merian is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In ang, to purify; refine
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)- Merian Caldwell Cooperb. 1893USAmerican aviator, actor, director and producer (1893-1973)
- Merian Sotob. 1954USPuerto Rican artist
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)40 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 62 | #90,038 |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- How do you pronounce Merian?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /meɾjan/; in Portuguese /mɛɾiɐn/; in Swahili /meɾian/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Merian a male or female name?
- Merian is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)), United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Netherlands (Meertens NVB).
- In which country does Merian have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.4 thousand people named Merian in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled merian.
- How common is the name Merian?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,775 people named Merian in 2022, about 1 in 119 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Merian?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/merianThe 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, “Merian”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.