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Meike

Girls' name

Possibly to be bitter, through Maria

Meike has been given to 20 babies in the U.S. since 1974. 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 1974, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Meike, 2010

1 in 739,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Meike: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly to be bitter, through Maria

Low German and West Frisian

What Meike means

Meike belongs to the name family reached through Meike → Maria → Maria → מרים. Its meaning is “to be bitter”.

Origin, language, and formation

Meike is used in Dutch and German. Its origins include Low German and West Frisian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Maria, Maike and מרים.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Dutch, Meike is pronounced /ˈmɛi̯.kə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 20 girls were recorded with the name Meike between 1974 and 2010. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1974; its best national rank was #9,663 in 1974.

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 Meike?

Meike had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2010, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2010
1 in 739,000
5 of 3,695,928 births
Among girls only
1 in 355,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2010
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
512,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Meike 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 2010 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 512,366 children born in 2010 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Meike. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Meikes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Meike was born before 1990 — so the typical Meike is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
75.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
20
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (10).

Is Meike 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 1974 (5)
Years since peak
51
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#9,663
1974

Spellings of Meike

Meike is not the most common spelling — Merle is, with 31.3% against Meike's 0.04%.

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.

Meike around the world

Where Meike 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
    2009–2009
    #5,556
    in 2009
  • South Australia
    1966–2001
    #711
    in 2001

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Meike 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
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Best rank ever
#9,663
1974
Peak year
1974
5 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2010
All-time count
20
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Meike

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

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Sibling names for Meike

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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