About the name Meridith
Meridith belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Meridith first appears in Social Security records in 1939. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #1128 in 1971, and in 2024 0 babies received the name — 2,652 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.