Media
Media was last recorded in 1980, when 5 babies were given it; 473 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Media by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Media?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,475, in 1980; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 1898, the peak
Media peaked in 1898, when 12 girls were given it, #1,033 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 5 | #11,475 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,632 | 4.4 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,636 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,862 | 6.8 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,135 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,877 | 3.9 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,830 | 2.9 |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,338 | 7.1 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,731 | 3.7 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,849 | 5.5 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | 7 | #5,621 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,863 | 4.7 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,663 | 3.5 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,887 | 2.5 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,835 | 2.9 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,487 | 4.1 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,839 | 2.8 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,280 | 4.5 |
| 1944 | 5 | #5,037 | 3.8 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,995 | 5.2 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,819 | 4.4 |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,111 | 5.6 |
| 1935 | 6 | #4,070 | 5.7 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,690 | 6.7 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,385 | 5.3 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,663 | 5.1 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,299 | 5.8 |
| 1924 | 11 | #3,090 | 8.8 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,893 | 6.7 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,301 | 5.7 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,517 | 7.5 |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,936 | 9.7 |
| 1918 | 10 | #3,166 | 8.6 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,972 | 6.5 |
| 1916 | 12 | #2,604 | 11.5 |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,489 | 12.2 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,560 | 11.8 |
| 1913 | 9 | #2,273 | 14.4 |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,934 | 17.9 |
| 1910 | 7 | #2,066 | 17.7 |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,558 | 25.9 |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,789 | 20.9 |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,751 | 22.0 |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,645 | 24.0 |
| 1904 | 5 | #2,073 | 18.2 |
| 1902 | 7 | #1,541 | 26.5 |
| 1901 | 10 | #1,110 | 41.8 |
| 1900 | 8 | #1,519 | 26.7 |
| 1898 | 12 | #1,033 | 46.4 |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,491 | 25.6 |
| 1896 | 10 | #1,095 | 42.0 |
| 1895 | 8 | #1,263 | 34.2 |
| 1893 | 7 | #1,255 | 32.9 |
| 1892 | 9 | #1,063 | 42.4 |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,464 | 27.0 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,465 | 26.3 |
| 1889 | 8 | #1,001 | 44.9 |
| 1888 | 6 | #1,238 | 33.6 |
| 1886 | 9 | #808 | 62.3 |
| 1885 | 8 | #830 | 60.1 |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,112 | 38.8 |
| 1883 | 6 | #888 | 53.4 |
| 1880 | 8 | #661 | 87.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Media a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Media has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 63 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Media: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Media, and how old are they?
An estimated 121 Americans named Media and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (26% of everyone recorded); the median is 59 years old and half are between 53 and 67. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 329 people named Media (316 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 137 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.4 times 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, Media is the third most given (14% 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 Media
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 Media and names like it
- Compare Media and MedaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1890sMedia peaked in 1898.
- The top names of 1898The year the most babies were named Media.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Media alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with MMost given first.