Meena
Meena was given to 40 girls in 2025, #3,748 among girls’ names; 1,592 Americans have been recorded with it since 1965 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,570 Americans named Meena and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 10 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Meena by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Meena mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Meena is “a female given name from Sanskrit.”
Borrowed from Sanskrit मीना (mīnā).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Meena?
#3,748 among girls’ names, 2025
Meena rose from #5,244 in 2015 to #3,748 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 14.6 to 24.9 per million.
54 babies in 2008, the peak
Meena peaked in 2008, when 54 girls were given it, #3,146 among girls’ names. The 40 births of 2025 are 74% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40 | #3,748 | 24.9 |
| 2024 | 36 | #4,093 | 22.2 |
| 2023 | 54 | #3,071 | 33.7 |
| 2022 | 46 | #3,453 | 28.0 |
| 2021 | 43 | #3,595 | 26.2 |
| 2020 | 39 | #3,762 | 24.1 |
| 2019 | 35 | #4,124 | 20.9 |
| 2018 | 47 | #3,377 | 27.6 |
| 2017 | 43 | #3,602 | 24.9 |
| 2016 | 45 | #3,502 | 25.4 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 26 | #5,244 | 14.6 |
| 2014 | 41 | #3,761 | 23.0 |
| 2013 | 42 | #3,681 | 23.9 |
| 2012 | 40 | #3,890 | 22.7 |
| 2011 | 36 | #4,126 | 20.5 |
| 2010 | 37 | #4,081 | 20.8 |
| 2009 | 41 | #3,845 | 22.3 |
| 2008 | 54 | #3,146 | 28.6 |
| 2007 | 41 | #3,892 | 21.3 |
| 2006 | 50 | #3,292 | 26.3 |
| 2005 | 42 | #3,559 | 22.7 |
| 2004 | 49 | #3,151 | 26.7 |
| 2003 | 40 | #3,569 | 21.9 |
| 2002 | 38 | #3,562 | 21.1 |
| 2001 | 32 | #3,998 | 17.8 |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,947 | 17.6 |
| 1999 | 28 | #4,164 | 15.8 |
| 1998 | 30 | #3,888 | 17.0 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,339 | 10.9 |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,897 | 16.0 |
| 1995 | 28 | #3,835 | 15.9 |
| 1994 | 29 | #3,751 | 16.2 |
| 1993 | 22 | #4,605 | 12.2 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,627 | 9.2 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,139 | 8.0 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,338 | 7.4 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,800 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 24 | #3,852 | 13.5 |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,996 | 9.2 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,384 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,224 | 11.0 |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,429 | 10.1 |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,062 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,463 | 10.0 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,134 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,431 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,349 | 10.6 |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,716 | 13.1 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,561 | 9.8 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,393 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,259 | 6.2 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,910 | 8.2 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,136 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,337 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,083 | 4.2 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,961 | 6.3 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,732 | 3.7 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,471 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,262 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Meena a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Meena has been given almost only to girls: 12 boys in 59 years of records.
Girls and boys named Meena: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Meena, and how old are they?
1,570 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,592 Americans ever recorded as Meena. The median Meena alive today is 20 years old; half are between 10 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 4,894 people named Meena (4,819 women and girls, 75 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,325 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.7 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 136 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 293 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 603 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 534 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Meena born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 8 | #2,415 | 1.4× |
Where Meena is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Meena is most over-represented in California: since 1965 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Meena with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,557 babies since 1880, Meena is the second most given (45% of them). In 2025 it was given to 40 of their 73 babies (55%), the most given that year.
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 Meena
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 Meena and names like it
- Compare Meena and MenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMeena peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Meena since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Meena: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Meena.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Meena alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.