Meher
#2,714 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Meher has been given to 881 babies in the U.S. since 1993. In 2025 it ranked #2,714 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 64 recorded.
Babies named Meher, 2025
1 in 51,800
Meher 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Meher?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 51,800
- 64 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 25,100
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #2,714
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 35,906 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Meher 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 35,906 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Meher. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Mehers were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Meher was born before 2017 — so the typical Meher is around 8 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 38.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 95.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 869
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 38.7% of all recorded uses (336).
Is Meher 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
- +1,157
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +456
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,404
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.78×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2021 (64)
- Years since peak
- 4
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.2% average annual change
Spellings of Meher
Meher is not the most common spelling — Meera is, with 23.3% against Meher's 4.8%.
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 Meher is used
Across 1910–2025, Meher was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 169,008 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 100,000
- 2New Jersey1 in 100,000
- 3Washington1 in 100,000
- 4Massachusetts1 in —
- 5New York1 in —
- 6Texas1 in —
- 7Virginia1 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. Meher has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Meher around the world
Where Meher 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#1,079in 2025
- Canada2005–2024#809in 2024
- South Australia2008–2011#514in 2011
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Meher by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Meher
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Meher
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.