Meya
#11,577 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Meya has been given to 833 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #11,577 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 62 recorded.
Babies named Meya, 2025
1 in 414,000
Meya 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Meya?
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 girls only
- 1 in 201,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #11,577
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 287,238 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Meya 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 Meya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Meyas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Meya was born before 2008 — so the typical Meya is around 17 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 49.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 90.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 833
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 49.1% of all recorded uses (409).
Is Meya 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
- +219
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −4,127
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −6,328
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.31×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 12.9%
- Peak was 2006 (62)
- Years since peak
- 19
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 16.2% average annual change
Spellings of Meya
Meya is not the most common spelling — Megan is, with 15.2% against Meya'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.
Where Meya is used
Across 1910–2025, Meya was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 510,981 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 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. Meya has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Meya around the world
Where Meya 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 & Wales2004–2025#5,927in 2025
- Scotland2011–2011#810in 2011
- France1988–2025#4,634in 2025
- Canada2008–2019#3,370in 2019
- South Australia2006–2006#782in 2006
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Meya by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Meya
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Meya
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.