Meera
Meera was given to 246 girls in 2025, #1,020 among girls’ names; 4,259 Americans have been recorded with it since 1965 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,210 Americans named Meera and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Meera by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Meera?
#1,020 among girls’ names, 2025
Meera rose from #1,296 in 2015 to #1,020 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.10 to 0.15 per 1,000.
246 babies in 2025, the peak
Meera peaked in 2025, when 246 girls were given it, #1,020 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 222 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 246 | #1,020 | 0.15 |
| 2024 | 222 | #1,103 | 0.14 |
| 2023 | 183 | #1,260 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 189 | #1,272 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 210 | #1,166 | 0.13 |
| 2020 | 171 | #1,296 | 0.11 |
| 2019 | 210 | #1,147 | 0.13 |
| 2018 | 191 | #1,227 | 0.11 |
| 2017 | 182 | #1,294 | 0.11 |
| 2016 | 198 | #1,234 | 0.11 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 186 | #1,296 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 174 | #1,349 | 0.10 |
| 2013 | 157 | #1,438 | 0.09 |
| 2012 | 82 | #2,308 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 80 | #2,341 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 101 | #1,987 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 80 | #2,413 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 89 | #2,227 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 81 | #2,364 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 73 | #2,531 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 77 | #2,329 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 65 | #2,573 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 83 | #2,113 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 63 | #2,519 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 59 | #2,585 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 46 | #3,047 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 55 | #2,592 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 46 | #2,872 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 63 | #2,184 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 51 | #2,492 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 39 | #2,999 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 38 | #3,069 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 31 | #3,546 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 36 | #3,184 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 31 | #3,499 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 34 | #3,263 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 24 | #4,075 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 28 | #3,443 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 22 | #3,931 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,134 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 23 | #3,689 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,825 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 21 | #3,763 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 24 | #3,492 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,456 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 22 | #3,679 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 14 | #4,996 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,730 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,743 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,799 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 12 | #5,041 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,614 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,441 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,878 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,970 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,152 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,762 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,472 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,246 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,175 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Meera a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Meera has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 60 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Meera: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Meera, and how old are they?
4,210 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,259 Americans ever recorded as Meera. The median Meera alive today is 11 years old; half are between 6 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 4,723 people named Meera (4,716 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,049 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 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 | 128 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 448 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,130 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,500 |
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 Meera born?
The states with the most babies named Meera are California, Texas and New York, with 43% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 46 | #681 | 1.3× |
| Texas | 31 | #938 | 0.6× |
| New York | 15 | #1,012 | 0.8× |
| Massachusetts | 15 | #389 | 1.3× |
| Washington | 14 | #503 | 1.5× |
| Michigan | 12 | #673 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 12 | #840 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 11 | #835 | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #853 | 0.4× |
| New Jersey | 8 | #905 | 2.0× |
Where Meera is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Meera is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1965 it was given 2.0 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 Meera 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 24,491 babies since 1880, Meera is the second most given (17% of them). In 2025 it was given to 246 of their 435 babies (57%), 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 Meera
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 Meera and names like it
- Compare Meera and MerryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMeera peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Meera since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Meera.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Meera alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.