Meer
Meer was given to 15 boys in 2025, #6,042 among boys’ names; 259 Americans have been recorded with it since 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Meer by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Meer?
#6,042 among boys’ names, 2025
Meer rose from #7,375 in 2015 to #6,042 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 5.7 to 8.8 per million.
18 babies in 2018, the peak
Meer peaked in 2018, when 18 boys were given it, #5,237 among boys’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 83% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #6,042 | 8.8 |
| 2024 | 15 | #6,084 | 8.7 |
| 2023 | 13 | #6,767 | 7.6 |
| 2022 | 13 | #6,704 | 7.4 |
| 2021 | 13 | #6,553 | 7.4 |
| 2020 | 17 | #5,388 | 9.8 |
| 2019 | 16 | #5,717 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 18 | #5,237 | 9.9 |
| 2017 | 12 | #6,965 | 6.5 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,585 | 6.9 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #7,375 | 5.7 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,369 | 5.7 |
| 2013 | 12 | #6,886 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 7 | #10,399 | 3.7 |
| 2011 | 10 | #7,882 | 5.3 |
| 2010 | 8 | #9,366 | 4.2 |
| 2009 | 11 | #7,539 | 5.5 |
| 2008 | 6 | #12,055 | 2.9 |
| 2007 | 8 | #9,447 | 3.9 |
| 2005 | 9 | #8,078 | 4.5 |
| 2004 | 5 | #12,566 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 5 | #12,096 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 6 | #10,216 | 3.1 |
| 2001 | 5 | #11,710 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Meer a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Meer has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Meer: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Meer, and how old are they?
An estimated 257 Americans named Meer and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 15. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 310 people named Meer (20 women and girls, 290 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 176 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 10,483 babies since 1880, Meer is the third most given (2.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 368 babies (4.1%), again the third 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 Meer
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 Meer and names like it
- Compare Meer and MeyerBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMeer peaked in 2018.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Meer.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Meer alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.