Meia
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Meia has been given to 430 babies in the U.S. since 1979. 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 2013, with 26 recorded.
Babies named Meia, 2024
1 in 478,000
Meia 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Meia?
Meia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 478,000
- 7 of 3,342,801 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 231,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 331,009 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Meia sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Meia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Meias were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Meia was born before 2007 — so the typical Meia is around 18 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 38.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 77.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 430
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 38.6% of all recorded uses (166).
Is Meia 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2013 (26)
- Years since peak
- 12
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 38.9% average annual change
Spellings of Meia
Meia is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 13.9% against Meia's 0.01%.
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.
Meia around the world
Where Meia 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 & Wales2010–2017#5,765in 2017
- Northern Ireland2013–2013#440in 2013
- France2005–2025#4,713in 2025
- Canada2012–2021#2,638in 2021
- South Australia2008–2013#818in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, 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. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Meia by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Meia
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Meia
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.