Meko
#9,420 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Meko has been given to 289 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #9,420 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2013, with 13 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 66% boys, 34% girls all-time.
Babies named Meko, 2025
1 in 414,000
Meko 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Meko over time
In 2025, Meko went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Meko?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 414,000
- 8 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 213,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #9,420
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 287,238 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Meko 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Meko. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Mekos were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Meko was born before 2011 — so the typical Meko is around 14 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 37.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 68.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 192
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 37.0% of all recorded uses (71).
Is Meko 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −921
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 61.5%
- Peak was 2013 (13)
- Years since peak
- 12
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.9% average annual change
Spellings of Meko
Meko is not the most common spelling — Leo is, with 43.0% against Meko's 0.03%.
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.
Meko around the world
Where Meko 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.
- France2024–2024#5,426in 2024
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Meko by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Meko
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Meko
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.