Meabh
#8,174 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Meabh has been given to 74 babies in the U.S. since 1999. In 2025 it ranked #8,174 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 13 recorded.
Babies named Meabh, 2025
1 in 255,000
Meabh 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Meabh?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 255,000
- 13 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 124,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #8,174
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 176,762 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Meabh 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Meabh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Meabhs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Meabh was born before 2021 — so the typical Meabh is around 4 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 74.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 93.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 74
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 74.3% of all recorded uses (55).
Is Meabh 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
- +4,821
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,845
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (13)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 33.4% average annual change
Spellings of Meabh
Meabh is not the most common spelling — Leah is, with 80.5% against Meabh's 0.02%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Meabh around the world
Where Meabh 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#1,229in 2025
- Scotland2017–2025#474in 2025
- Northern Ireland1997–2025#9in 2025
- Ireland1976–2025#38in 2025
- Canada2016–2016#3,204in 2016
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Meabh by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Meabh
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Meabh
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.