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Meki

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Meki has been given to 40 babies in the U.S. since 1998. 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 2003, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Meki, 2020

1 in 668,000

Meki over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Meki: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Meki means

Meki is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Meki is used in Atayal.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 40 boys were recorded with the name Meki between 1998 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2003; its best national rank was #8,347 in 2003.

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 Meki?

Meki had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 668,000
5 of 3,342,313 births
Among boys only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,344 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Meki sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 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 463,344 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Meki. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mekis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Meki was born before 2005 — so the typical Meki is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
62.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
40
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 62.5% of all recorded uses (25).

Is Meki 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 2003 (8)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
44.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,347
2003

Spellings of Meki

Meki is not the most common spelling — Levi is, with 33.4% against Meki'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.

Meki around the world

Where Meki 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.

  • France
    1967–2007
    #3,798
    in 2007

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Meki by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,347
2003
Peak year
2003
8 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
40
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Meki

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

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Sibling names for Meki

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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