Girls' name · since 1965
Mecia
Mecia has 21 recorded births since 1965 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1971 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #45,503 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 21
- born since 1965
- 1990s
- peak decade
21 girls have been named Mecia since 1965, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Mecia has 21 recorded births among girls since 1965, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1990s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1965 to 1992.
- #45,503 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 21 born since 1965
- 1990s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Mecia ranks #45,503 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 21 born since 1965, peaking in the 1990s.
- #45,503 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 21
- born since 1965
- 1990s
- peak decade
Mecia's 21 recorded births place it above 36.74% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Mecia's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Mecia splits its recorded history at 1990: 48% of all births land in the more recent half, 52% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1965 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1971 peak of 6 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Mecia popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1965–1992
- Peak year (1971)
- 6
- Annual births at peak, across 28 years of records
Mecia by decade
1990s is the heaviest window (10 births, 48% of the file).
1990s was Mecia's strongest decade.
10 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 48% of all-time use.
Mecia births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window.
- 1960s
1960s
5 births
- 1970s
1970s
6 births
- 1990s
1990s
10 births
What this shows Peak: 1990s at 10 births (48% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Mecia: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1971)
Similar record span (~27 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1965–1992 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Mecia draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.