Mecca — #3327 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Mecca

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,263 babies named Mecca between 1952 and 2024, spanning 73 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Mecca currently holds the #3327 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1995, when 89 babies received it in a single year. Mecca is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 759 additional births since 1975.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Mecca performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 640 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Mecca shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 252 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New Jersey and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Mecca in 11 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Mecca in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,263 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.