Mea
#6,737 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Mea has been given to 1,690 babies in the U.S. since 1954. In 2025 it ranked #6,737 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 112 recorded.
Babies named Mea, 2025
1 in 195,000
Mea over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Mea?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 195,000
- 17 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 94,500
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #6,737
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 135,172 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Mea sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mea. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Meas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Mea was born before 2007 — so the typical Mea is around 18 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 42.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 80.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,690
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 42.7% of all recorded uses (722).
Is Mea rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- −1,006
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −958
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −3,621
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.31×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 15.2%
- Peak was 2005 (112)
- Years since peak
- 20
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.4% average annual change
Where Mea is used
Across 1910–2025, Mea was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 247,394 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Florida1 in 100,000
- 2Michigan1 in 100,000
- 3Ohio1 in 100,000
- 4Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
- 5California1 in —
- 6Georgia1 in —
- 7Iowa1 in —
- 8Louisiana1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Mea has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Mea around the world
Where Mea ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1999–2025#3,333in 2025
- Northern Ireland2012–2023#391in 2023
- Ireland2004–2004#677in 2004
- France1902–2024#5,555in 2024
- Canada2001–2024#2,463in 2024
- South Australia1986–2008#796in 2008
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Mea by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Mea
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Mea
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.