Girls' name · since 1961
Medea
Medea has 202 recorded births since 1961 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1975 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #19,726 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 202
- born since 1961
- 1970s
- peak decade
202 girls have been named Medea since 1961, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Medea has 202 recorded births among girls since 1961, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1970s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1961 to 2008.
- #19,726 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 202 born since 1961
- 1970s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Medea ranks #19,726 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 202 born since 1961, peaking in the 1970s.
- #19,726 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 202
- born since 1961
- 1970s
- peak decade
Medea's 202 recorded births place it above 72.7% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Medea's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Medea splits its recorded history at 1976: 49% of all births land in the more recent half, 51% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1968 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1975 peak of 14 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Medea popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1961–2008
- Peak year (1975)
- 14
- Annual births at peak, across 48 years of records
Medea by decade
1970s is the heaviest window (79 births, 39% of the file).
1970s was Medea's strongest decade.
79 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 39% of all-time use.
Medea births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1960s
1960s
54 births
- 1970s
1970s
79 births
- 1980s 23
1980s
23 births
- 1990s 5
1990s
5 births
- 2000s
2000s
41 births
What this shows Peak: 1970s at 79 births (39% of all-time use).
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- Medea's usage has stayed within range of its 1970s decade-level peak (79 total births) through the 2000s (41) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Medea: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1975)
Similar record span (~47 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, 1961–2008 (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 Medea 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.