Meah
Meah was given to 15 girls in 2025, #7,376 among girls’ names; 1,628 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,610 Americans named Meah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 12 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Meah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Meah?
#7,376 among girls’ names, 2025
Meah fell from #2,580 in 2015 to #7,376 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 39.2 to 9.3 per million.
122 babies in 2006, the peak
Meah peaked in 2006, when 122 girls were given it, #1,718 among girls’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,376 | 9.3 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,830 | 8.6 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,395 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,904 | 8.5 |
| 2021 | 31 | #4,469 | 18.9 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,238 | 11.8 |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,256 | 14.9 |
| 2018 | 47 | #3,376 | 27.6 |
| 2017 | 60 | #2,828 | 34.8 |
| 2016 | 52 | #3,171 | 29.3 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 70 | #2,580 | 39.2 |
| 2014 | 70 | #2,549 | 39.2 |
| 2013 | 78 | #2,360 | 44.5 |
| 2012 | 73 | #2,507 | 41.5 |
| 2011 | 78 | #2,385 | 44.3 |
| 2010 | 87 | #2,232 | 48.9 |
| 2009 | 90 | #2,200 | 49.0 |
| 2008 | 71 | #2,621 | 37.5 |
| 2007 | 105 | #1,966 | 54.6 |
| 2006 | 122 | #1,718 | 64.2 |
| 2005 | 106 | #1,846 | 57.4 |
| 2004 | 94 | #1,982 | 51.2 |
| 2003 | 69 | #2,400 | 37.8 |
| 2002 | 46 | #3,122 | 25.6 |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,639 | 14.4 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,616 | 11.0 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,572 | 10.7 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,975 | 9.6 |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,545 | 10.3 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,195 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,917 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,179 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,932 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,774 | 3.3 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,390 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,787 | 3.3 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,242 | 3.4 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,793 | 2.9 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,333 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,682 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,856 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,630 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Meah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Meah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Meah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Meah, and how old are they?
1,610 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,628 Americans ever recorded as Meah. The median Meah alive today is 17 years old; half are between 12 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 1,327 people named Meah (1,317 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,516 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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 | 14 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 64 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,030 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 503 |
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 Meah born?
The states with the most babies named Meah are California, Texas and Michigan, with 55% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 134 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 91 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 41 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 40 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 30 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 27 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 16 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New York | 16 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Indiana | 11 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Massachusetts | 11 | not ranked | 0.3× |
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 Meah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 7,509 babies since 1880, Meah is the third most given (22% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 157 babies (9.6%), again the third 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 Meah
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 Meah and names like it
- Compare Meah and MeiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMeah peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Meah since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Meah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Meah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.