Meda
Meda was last recorded in 2018, when 6 babies were given it; 1,882 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Meda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Meda mean?
Wiktionary, Czech section
Meda is “a female given name”
[ˈmɛda]
Meaning: Wiktionary, Czech section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Meda?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,020, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
55 babies in 1915, the peak
Meda peaked in 1915, when 55 girls were given it, #889 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 6 | #15,020 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,558 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,599 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,207 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,451 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,398 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,864 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,716 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,024 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,320 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (100)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 8 | #6,387 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,642 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,786 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,923 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,300 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,260 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,692 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,186 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,327 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,365 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,886 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 15 | #3,183 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,442 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,622 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,914 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 21 | #2,417 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,458 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 18 | #2,556 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,259 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,359 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,326 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 22 | #2,103 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,724 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 16 | #2,448 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,304 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 10 | #3,082 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,801 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 14 | #2,499 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 24 | #1,635 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,895 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 16 | #2,095 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 18 | #1,919 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 17 | #1,971 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 26 | #1,472 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 21 | #1,704 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 18 | #1,884 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,362 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 24 | #1,590 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 14 | #2,271 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 25 | #1,593 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 25 | #1,584 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 21 | #1,874 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 27 | #1,605 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 33 | #1,406 | 0.03 |
| 1925 | 34 | #1,399 | 0.03 |
| 1924 | 38 | #1,313 | 0.03 |
| 1923 | 28 | #1,578 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 35 | #1,353 | 0.03 |
| 1921 | 43 | #1,179 | 0.03 |
| 1920 | 36 | #1,302 | 0.03 |
| 1919 | 41 | #1,172 | 0.04 |
| 1918 | 41 | #1,177 | 0.04 |
| 1917 | 35 | #1,232 | 0.03 |
| 1916 | 36 | #1,206 | 0.03 |
| 1915 | 55 | #889 | 0.06 |
| 1914 | 39 | #950 | 0.05 |
| 1913 | 25 | #1,112 | 0.04 |
| 1912 | 29 | #953 | 0.05 |
| 1911 | 16 | #1,154 | 0.04 |
| 1910 | 26 | #854 | 0.07 |
| 1909 | 26 | #809 | 0.07 |
| 1908 | 25 | #783 | 0.07 |
| 1907 | 28 | #722 | 0.09 |
| 1906 | 15 | #994 | 0.05 |
| 1905 | 24 | #753 | 0.08 |
| 1904 | 13 | #1,034 | 0.05 |
| 1903 | 15 | #920 | 0.06 |
| 1902 | 17 | #861 | 0.06 |
| 1901 | 12 | #989 | 0.05 |
| 1900 | 33 | #620 | 0.11 |
| 1899 | 24 | #636 | 0.10 |
| 1898 | 25 | #661 | 0.10 |
| 1897 | 22 | #671 | 0.09 |
| 1896 | 25 | #629 | 0.11 |
| 1895 | 27 | #586 | 0.12 |
| 1894 | 21 | #657 | 0.09 |
| 1893 | 19 | #680 | 0.09 |
| 1892 | 27 | #536 | 0.13 |
| 1891 | 27 | #502 | 0.15 |
| 1890 | 18 | #635 | 0.09 |
| 1889 | 26 | #496 | 0.15 |
| 1888 | 18 | #604 | 0.10 |
| 1887 | 22 | #485 | 0.15 |
| 1886 | 20 | #503 | 0.14 |
| 1885 | 25 | #424 | 0.19 |
| 1884 | 12 | #632 | 0.09 |
| 1883 | 10 | #640 | 0.09 |
| 1882 | 18 | #440 | 0.17 |
| 1881 | 8 | #660 | 0.09 |
| 1880 | 19 | #384 | 0.21 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Meda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Meda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 100 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Meda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Meda, and how old are they?
An estimated 353 Americans named Meda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (19% of everyone recorded); the median is 72 years old and half are between 58 and 80. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 611 people named Meda (599 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 449 born in the U.S. The Census count is 36% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,490 babies since 1880, Meda is the most given (54% of them).
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 Meda
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 Meda and names like it
- Compare Meda and MedhaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sMeda peaked in 1915.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Meda since 1910.
- Czech namesWiktionary’s origin for Meda: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1915The year the most babies were named Meda.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Meda alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.