Meara
Meara was given to 53 girls in 2025, #3,091 among girls’ names; 1,436 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,420 Americans named Meara and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Meara by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Meara?
#3,091 among girls’ names, 2025
Meara fell from #2,519 in 2015 to #3,091 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 40.3 to 33.0 per million.
72 babies in 2015, the peak
Meara peaked in 2015, when 72 girls were given it, #2,519 among girls’ names. The 53 births of 2025 are 74% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 53 | #3,091 | 33.0 |
| 2024 | 34 | #4,264 | 21.0 |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,491 | 14.3 |
| 2022 | 39 | #3,870 | 23.8 |
| 2021 | 34 | #4,208 | 20.7 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,980 | 22.3 |
| 2019 | 50 | #3,207 | 29.8 |
| 2018 | 64 | #2,704 | 37.6 |
| 2017 | 59 | #2,863 | 34.2 |
| 2016 | 52 | #3,172 | 29.3 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 72 | #2,519 | 40.3 |
| 2014 | 66 | #2,671 | 36.9 |
| 2013 | 62 | #2,797 | 35.3 |
| 2012 | 53 | #3,155 | 30.1 |
| 2011 | 35 | #4,210 | 19.9 |
| 2010 | 27 | #5,201 | 15.2 |
| 2009 | 29 | #5,043 | 15.8 |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,057 | 20.6 |
| 2007 | 47 | #3,513 | 24.4 |
| 2006 | 45 | #3,539 | 23.7 |
| 2005 | 50 | #3,150 | 27.1 |
| 2004 | 41 | #3,598 | 22.3 |
| 2003 | 31 | #4,274 | 17.0 |
| 2002 | 33 | #3,942 | 18.4 |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,640 | 14.4 |
| 2000 | 35 | #3,704 | 19.3 |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,816 | 13.0 |
| 1998 | 29 | #3,989 | 16.4 |
| 1997 | 28 | #3,968 | 16.1 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,684 | 9.7 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,494 | 8.0 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,937 | 7.3 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,899 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,524 | 7.6 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,763 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,661 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,799 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,945 | 6.2 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,768 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,208 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,779 | 9.3 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,869 | 4.8 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,770 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,119 | 11.2 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,162 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,857 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,272 | 3.1 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,078 | 4.6 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,044 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Meara a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Meara has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Meara: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Meara, and how old are they?
1,420 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,436 Americans ever recorded as Meara. The median Meara alive today is 15 years old; half are between 9 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 1,207 people named Meara (1,207 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,214 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 25 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 190 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 565 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 640 |
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 25,350 babies since 1880, Meara is the sixth most given (5.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 53 of their 433 babies (12%), the third most given that year.
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 Meara
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 Meara and names like it
- Compare Meara and MerryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMeara peaked in 2015.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Meara since 1910.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Meara.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Meara alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.