Meeka
Meeka was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,566 among girls’ names; 475 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Meeka by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Meeka?
#11,566 among girls’ names, 2025
Meeka fell from #6,172 in 2015 to #11,566 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 11.8 to 5.0 per million.
23 babies in 2014, the peak
Meeka peaked in 2014, when 23 girls were given it, #5,738 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 35% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,566 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,784 | 4.9 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,895 | 10.4 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,829 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,532 | 11.1 |
| 2019 | 14 | #8,010 | 8.3 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,447 | 7.6 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,612 | 7.5 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,469 | 5.1 |
| 2015 | 21 | #6,172 | 11.8 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 23 | #5,738 | 12.9 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,924 | 10.3 |
| 2012 | 18 | #7,057 | 10.2 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,487 | 11.4 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,770 | 9.0 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,791 | 6.5 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,548 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,729 | 10.4 |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,091 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,190 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,877 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,445 | 2.7 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,708 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,035 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,530 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,264 | 2.9 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,182 | 4.5 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,682 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,039 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,828 | 4.2 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,182 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,763 | 5.8 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,774 | 3.6 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,157 | 5.4 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,476 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,633 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,729 | 5.9 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,297 | 5.2 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,863 | 6.8 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,010 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,503 | 8.9 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,336 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,123 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,960 | 6.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Meeka a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Meeka has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Meeka: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Meeka, and how old are they?
An estimated 466 Americans named Meeka and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 11 and 35. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 460 people named Meeka (446 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 413 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 5,147 babies since 1880, Meeka is the fourth most given (9.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 119 babies (6.7%), again the fourth most given.
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 Meeka
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.
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