Meadow
Meadow was given to 1,078 girls in 2025, #286 among girls’ names; 12,355 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 12,200 Americans named Meadow and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Meadow by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Meadow mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Meadow is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Meadow?
#286 among girls’ names, 2025
Meadow rose from #673 in 2015 to #286 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.24 to 0.67 per 1,000.
1,078 babies in 2025, the peak
Meadow peaked in 2025, when 1,078 girls were given it, #286 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 953 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,078 | #286 | 0.67 |
| 2024 | 953 | #325 | 0.59 |
| 2023 | 870 | #351 | 0.54 |
| 2022 | 776 | #405 | 0.47 |
| 2021 | 624 | #499 | 0.38 |
| 2020 | 646 | #476 | 0.40 |
| 2019 | 630 | #498 | 0.38 |
| 2018 | 608 | #514 | 0.36 |
| 2017 | 394 | #725 | 0.23 |
| 2016 | 426 | #687 | 0.24 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 424 | #673 | 0.24 |
| 2014 | 374 | #751 | 0.21 |
| 2013 | 257 | #979 | 0.15 |
| 2012 | 267 | #952 | 0.15 |
| 2011 | 294 | #890 | 0.17 |
| 2010 | 304 | #875 | 0.17 |
| 2009 | 321 | #867 | 0.17 |
| 2008 | 325 | #856 | 0.17 |
| 2007 | 381 | #765 | 0.20 |
| 2006 | 342 | #803 | 0.18 |
| 2005 | 295 | #856 | 0.16 |
| 2004 | 339 | #767 | 0.18 |
| 2003 | 326 | #761 | 0.18 |
| 2002 | 269 | #859 | 0.15 |
| 2001 | 293 | #806 | 0.16 |
| 2000 | 134 | #1,390 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 38 | #3,354 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,973 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,378 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 20 | #4,985 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,854 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,425 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,460 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,555 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,389 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,180 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,590 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,772 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,193 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,107 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 21 | #3,796 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 21 | #3,736 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,860 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 23 | #3,335 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 23 | #3,154 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 26 | #2,856 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,361 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,092 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 15 | #4,022 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,386 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,827 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,150 | under 0.01 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,478 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Meadow a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Meadow has been given almost only to girls: 12 boys in 53 years of records.
Girls and boys named Meadow: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Meadow, and how old are they?
12,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 12,355 Americans ever recorded as Meadow. The median Meadow alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 6,750 people named Meadow (6,714 women and girls, 36 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,491 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 185 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 118 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,920 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 8,030 |
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).
Where are babies named Meadow born?
The states with the most babies named Meadow are Texas, California and New York, with 25% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 98 | #356 | 0.6× |
| California | 97 | #337 | 0.7× |
| New York | 68 | #252 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 63 | #177 | 1.5× |
| Ohio | 51 | #225 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 48 | #393 | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 38 | #241 | 1.1× |
| New Jersey | 36 | #234 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 34 | #320 | 0.9× |
| Massachusetts | 30 | #187 | 1.0× |
Where Meadow is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Meadow is most over-represented in Pennsylvania: since 1914 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Meadow with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Meadow
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 Meadow and names like it
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