Meri
A Hebrew name meaning "sea". Fewer than 170 people in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met a Meri, and the register rarely logs a newborn now.
Meri Pronunciation
Meri is pronounced ME-ree (/ˈmɛri/).
What Meri means
Where Meri comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Meri comes from Hebrew, and its short meaning is sea, in Polish morze. The Hebrew noun for sea is yam, and that watery sense reaches Meri through the older name Miriam, which one tradition reads as mar plus yam, a drop of the sea. That reading was attached later, and scholars still argue over the real root. The meaning stuck anyway.
On a Polish class register the name sits short and plain among the longer ones. Three letters. Meri asks for no diminutive and has none, so a child keeps it whole from the first roll call onward.
What the name hands its bearer is a plain image, water without a far edge. A girl called Meri holds the Hebrew word for sea in a shape Polish speakers manage easily. Say the name and you stand one short step from morze.
How many people are named Meri
1 in 138306 women in Poland is named Meri. 166 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2500 among female names.
Meri's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Meri as a middle name
Meri is a first name for 166 women in Poland and a middle name for another 8, a 95/5 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2814th, between Meredith (8) and Milda (8).
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#2812 Mercy8
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#2813 Meredith8
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#2814 Meri8
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#2815 Milda8
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#2816 Miliana8