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Meda

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Meda has been given to 1,882 babies in the U.S. since 1880. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1915, with 55 recorded.

Babies named Meda, 2018

1 in 586,000

Meda over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Meda: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Meda means

Meda is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Meda is used in Czech.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Meda is pronounced [ˈmɛda].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,882 girls were recorded with the name Meda between 1880 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 55 in 1915; its best national rank was #384 in 1880.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Meda?

Meda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 586,000
6 of 3,516,853 births
Among girls only
1 in 283,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
406,284 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Meda sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2018 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 406,284 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Meda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Medas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Meda was born before 1919 — so the typical Meda is around 106 today.

Median birth year
1919
About 106 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
18.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
263
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1910s — 18.2% of all recorded uses (343).

Is Meda 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1915 (55)
Years since peak
110
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#384
1880

Spellings of Meda

Meda is not the most common spelling — Megan is, with 13.2% against Meda's 0.06%.

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 Meda is used

Across 1910–2025, Meda was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 344,418 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Arkansas1 in —
  2. 2Missouri1 in —
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 in —
  5. 5West Virginia1 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. Meda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Meda around the world

Where Meda 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 & Wales
    2004–2024
    #4,844
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2006–2020
    #834
    in 2020
  • France
    2022–2022
    #5,266
    in 2022

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Meda by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#384
1880
Peak year
1915
55 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
1,882
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Meda

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

NedaMedhaMedinaLedaSyedaJaedaVaedaMedoraRedaEdaMakedaFreedaVedaMediaSedaCledaAledaMedeaBedaOnedaThedaZedaLavedaFleda

Sibling names for Meda

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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