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Meira

#2,046 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Meir

Meira has been given to 1,657 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #2,046 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 93 recorded.

Babies named Meira, 2025

1 in 35,600

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Meira: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Meir

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Meira means

Meira is a feminine form of Meir.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Meira → Meir. The family’s meaning is “giving light”, recorded in the naming reference for Meir.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Meir.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,657 girls were recorded with the name Meira between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 93 in 2025; its best national rank was #2,046 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,234 in 2020 to #2,046 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,166 in 2015 to #2,046 in 2025.

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.

How common is Meira?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 35,600
93 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 17,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,046
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
24,710 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Meira 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 2025 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 24,710 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Meira. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Meiras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Meira was born before 2013 — so the typical Meira is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
34.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
82.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,657
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 34.5% of all recorded uses (572).

Is Meira 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
+638
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+188
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,120
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.75×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (93)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,046
2025

Spellings of Meira

Meira is not the most common spelling — Debra is, with 28.9% against Meira's 0.09%.

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 Meira is used

Across 1910–2025, Meira was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 130,971 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 33,333
  2. 2New York1 in 33,333
  3. 3Maryland1 in 50,000
  4. 4California1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Michigan1 in —
  7. 7Ohio1 in —
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 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. Meira has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Meira around the world

Where Meira 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
    2007–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • France
    1996–2025
    #2,309
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2005–2024
    #1,709
    in 2024

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

Meira by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,046
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 188
Best rank ever
#2,046
2025
Peak year
2025
93 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,657
Count in 2025
93

Names similar to Meira

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

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Sibling names for Meira

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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