Meiko
Meiko was last recorded in 2024, when 12 babies were given it; 247 Americans have been recorded with it between 1971 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Meiko by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Meiko mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Meiko is “a female given name from Japanese.”
Borrowed from Japanese めいこ (Meiko).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Meiko?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,552, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
23 babies in 2021, the peak
Meiko peaked in 2021, when 23 babies were given it (18 boys, #5,265 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #16,859 | 7 | #10,552 |
| 2023 | under 5 | 14 | #6,395 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 8 | #9,550 | |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,856 | 18 | #5,265 |
| 2020 | under 5 | 15 | #5,875 | |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,964 | 7 | #10,447 |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,023 | 9 | #8,597 |
| 2016 | under 5 | 7 | #10,365 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 13 | #6,491 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 6 | #11,767 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | under 5 | 8 | #9,320 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 5 | #13,584 | |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,214 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 7 | #10,274 | |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,400 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 6 | #9,888 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 5 | #9,340 | |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,339 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,776 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,612 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,866 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,720 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,788 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,822 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,647 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,383 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,875 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,765 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,084 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Meiko a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 247 Americans recorded as Meiko, 45% are girls and 55% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Meiko: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Meiko, and how old are they?
An estimated 241 Americans named Meiko and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 6 and 44. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 409 people named Meiko (280 women and girls, 129 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 175 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,247 babies since 1880, Meiko is the third most given (11% of them). In 2025 none of their 48 babies recorded by SSA was a Meiko (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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.
More about Meiko and names like it
- Compare Meiko and MehkiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMeiko peaked in 2021.
- Japanese namesWiktionary’s origin for Meiko: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Meiko.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Meiko alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.