Mea
Mea was given to 17 girls in 2025, #6,737 among girls’ names; 1,690 Americans have been recorded with it since 1954 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,660 Americans named Mea and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 13 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mea by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mea?
#6,737 among girls’ names, 2025
Mea fell from #3,116 in 2015 to #6,737 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 30.3 to 10.6 per million.
112 babies in 2005, the peak
Mea peaked in 2005, when 112 girls were given it, #1,762 among girls’ names. The 17 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,737 | 10.6 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,731 | 13.6 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,086 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,381 | 11.6 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,873 | 12.8 |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,779 | 13.0 |
| 2019 | 32 | #4,412 | 19.1 |
| 2018 | 35 | #4,122 | 20.6 |
| 2017 | 41 | #3,748 | 23.7 |
| 2016 | 44 | #3,565 | 24.8 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 54 | #3,116 | 30.3 |
| 2014 | 60 | #2,877 | 33.6 |
| 2013 | 79 | #2,338 | 45.0 |
| 2012 | 69 | #2,620 | 39.2 |
| 2011 | 62 | #2,826 | 35.2 |
| 2010 | 66 | #2,715 | 37.1 |
| 2009 | 62 | #2,841 | 33.7 |
| 2008 | 86 | #2,285 | 45.5 |
| 2007 | 94 | #2,140 | 48.9 |
| 2006 | 106 | #1,915 | 55.8 |
| 2005 | 112 | #1,762 | 60.6 |
| 2004 | 61 | #2,697 | 33.2 |
| 2003 | 73 | #2,311 | 40.0 |
| 2002 | 72 | #2,279 | 40.1 |
| 2001 | 34 | #3,839 | 18.9 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,254 | 12.1 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,378 | 9.0 |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,578 | 13.6 |
| 1997 | 26 | #4,197 | 14.9 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,423 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,506 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,178 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,931 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,841 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,514 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,960 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,312 | 4.3 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,727 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,096 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,792 | 2.9 |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,079 | 5.4 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,681 | 5.9 |
| 1981 | 22 | #3,694 | 13.2 |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,243 | 10.8 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,348 | 10.6 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,227 | 6.5 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,666 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,810 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,662 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,043 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,876 | 3.9 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,730 | 3.7 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,525 | 3.6 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,298 | 3.5 |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,114 | 6.2 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,434 | 2.6 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,690 | 3.6 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,321 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mea a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mea has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 58 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mea: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mea, and how old are they?
1,660 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,690 Americans ever recorded as Mea. The median Mea alive today is 19 years old; half are between 13 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 1,601 people named Mea (1,587 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,566 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 14 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 100 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 122 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 975 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 452 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 7,509 babies since 1880, Mea is the second most given (23% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 157 babies (11%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Mea
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Mea and names like it
- Compare Mea and MeiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMea peaked in 2005.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mea since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Mea.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mea alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.