Merika
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɛɹɪkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Merika is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.3M(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 37K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 94K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Merika itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 106 (measured from records)
- 1 in 37K (inferred from the name graph)
≈600 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled เมริกา in TH Thailand.
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.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Merika 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 94K | — | Merika | 8 |
| TH Thailand | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 440K | — | เมริกา | 30 |
| FI Finland | 151 | 1 in 37K | 160 | — | 2 |
| US United States | 144 | 1 in 2.3M | 143 | Merika | 106 |
| PH Philippines | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 3.8M | — | Merika | 8 |
| EE Estonia | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 117K | 18 | — | 1 |
| GY Guyana | 3 | 1 in 250K | 3 | Merika | 1 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Merika 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 chk, America
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)
- Merika Colemanb. 1973USAmerican politician
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)
Attested in 19 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 160 | #2,074 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 151 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 143 | #46,361 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 18 | #1,818 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 10 | #37,516 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1991 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1992 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1990 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1987 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1995 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1982 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1980 | 5 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Merika?
- A machine transcription gives /mɛɹɪkə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Merika a male or female name?
- Merika is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Merika have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 600 people named Merika in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled merika.
- Where is Merika most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Merika is densest in Finland — about 1 in 37 thousand people — even though South Africa holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Merika?
- In Finland, the national register counted 151 people named Merika, about 1 in 37 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Merika?
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/merikaThe 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, “Merika”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.