Medea — girls' name

What the Data Says About Medea

The Social Security Administration has registered 202 babies named Medea between 1961 and 2008, spanning 48 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Medea currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2008. The name reached its historical peak in 1975, when 14 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Medea performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 79 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Medea shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Medea 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 202 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.