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Mete

#6,330 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Modu

Mete has been given to 155 babies in the U.S. since 2000. In 2025 it ranked #6,330 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Mete, 2025

1 in 237,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mete: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Modu

Chinese

What Mete means

Mete is a form of Modu.

Origin, language, and formation

Mete is used in Turkish. Its origins include Chinese.

Mete comes through Chinese 冒頓.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Modu.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 155 boys were recorded with the name Mete between 2000 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2012; its best national rank was #6,200 in 2012.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #9,261 in 2020 to #6,330 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,943 in 2015 to #6,330 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Mete?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 122,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,330
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mete 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 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mete. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Metes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mete was born before 2017 — so the typical Mete is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
50.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
155
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Choose a decade

2010s — 50.3% of all recorded uses (78).

Is Mete 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
+3,231
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,931
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+613
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.17×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2012 (14)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,200
2012

Spellings of Mete

Mete is not the most common spelling — Peter is, with 33.9% against Mete'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.

Where Mete is used

Across 1910–2025, Mete was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,009,469 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Mete has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mete around the world

Where Mete 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
    1999–2025
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • France
    1998–2025
    #4,952
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2019–2019
    #2,583
    in 2019

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.

Mete by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,330
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,931
Best rank ever
#6,200
2012
Peak year
2012
14 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
155
Count in 2025
14

Names similar to Mete

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

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Sibling names for Mete

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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