Meah
#7,376 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Meah has been given to 1,628 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #7,376 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 122 recorded.
Babies named Meah, 2025
1 in 221,000
Meah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Meah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 221,000
- 15 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 107,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #7,376
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 153,194 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Meah 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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Meah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Meahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Meah was born before 2009 — so the typical Meah is around 16 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 46.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 90.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,628
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 46.0% of all recorded uses (749).
Is Meah 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
- +454
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,138
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −4,796
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.21×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 12.3%
- Peak was 2006 (122)
- Years since peak
- 19
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.6% average annual change
Spellings of Meah
Meah is not the most common spelling — Jean is, with 21.6% against Meah's 0.08%.
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.
Where Meah is used
Across 1910–2025, Meah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 242,167 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 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. Meah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Meah around the world
Where Meah 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 & Wales1999–2019#4,001in 2019
- Scotland2008–2016#798in 2016
- Northern Ireland2012–2017#355in 2017
- Canada2004–2019#3,370in 2019
- South Australia1993–2013#818in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Meah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Meah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Meah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.