Meesha
Meesha was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,452 among girls’ names; 363 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Meesha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Meesha?
#16,452 among girls’ names, 2025
Meesha fell from #15,753 in 2015 to #16,452 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 3.4 to 3.1 per million.
21 babies in 1990, the peak
Meesha peaked in 1990, when 21 girls were given it, #4,620 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 24% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,452 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,785 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,830 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,907 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,808 | 7.3 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,772 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 8 | #12,061 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,141 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,622 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,863 | 4.0 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | #15,753 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,886 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,964 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,287 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,210 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,473 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,454 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,603 | 4.3 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,022 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,813 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,820 | 5.1 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,876 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,252 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,556 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,333 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,221 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,567 | 9.1 |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,620 | 11.1 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,314 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,912 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,429 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,928 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,909 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,430 | 10.1 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,640 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,935 | 4.7 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,722 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,718 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,280 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,081 | 8.2 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,665 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,380 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,430 | 6.9 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,217 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Meesha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Meesha 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 Meesha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Meesha, and how old are they?
An estimated 354 Americans named Meesha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 15 and 41. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 380 people named Meesha (376 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 313 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 3,402 babies since 1880, Meesha is the fourth most given (11% 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 Meesha
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 Meesha and names like it
- Compare Meesha and MeshaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMeesha peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Meesha since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Meesha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Meesha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.