59%RatingSave Gender Masculine & Feminine Usage English (Rare) Pronounced Pron. /ˈmɛɹ.ɪt/ [key·simplify] Meaning & HistoryExpand Links Either a variant of Merritt or else simply from the English word merit, ultimately from Latin meritus "deserving". Related NamesFamily Tree·Details Other Languages & CulturesMerita(Albanian) Merita(Esperanto) Same SpellingMerit 2User SubmissionMerit People think this name isRate·Details wholesome strong strange Categories cigarette brands, English nouns, English verbs, isograms, rare English, surnames, variants, virtue names, word names