Meila
Meila was given to 39 girls in 2025, #3,814 among girls’ names; 636 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Meila by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Meila?
#3,814 among girls’ names, 2025
Meila fell from #3,330 in 2015 to #3,814 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 27.4 to 24.3 per million.
53 babies in 2018, the peak
Meila peaked in 2018, when 53 girls were given it, #3,089 among girls’ names. The 39 births of 2025 are 74% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39 | #3,814 | 24.3 |
| 2024 | 33 | #4,350 | 20.4 |
| 2023 | 32 | #4,422 | 19.9 |
| 2022 | 33 | #4,344 | 20.1 |
| 2021 | 32 | #4,381 | 19.5 |
| 2020 | 46 | #3,372 | 28.5 |
| 2019 | 49 | #3,259 | 29.2 |
| 2018 | 53 | #3,089 | 31.2 |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,657 | 17.4 |
| 2016 | 37 | #4,057 | 20.9 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 49 | #3,330 | 27.4 |
| 2014 | 28 | #4,983 | 15.7 |
| 2013 | 33 | #4,391 | 18.8 |
| 2012 | 33 | #4,446 | 18.7 |
| 2011 | 22 | #6,074 | 12.5 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,404 | 9.6 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,423 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,979 | 8.5 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,966 | 8.3 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,156 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,775 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,401 | 3.3 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,723 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Meila a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Meila has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 23 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Meila: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Meila, and how old are they?
An estimated 632 Americans named Meila 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 13. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 403 people named Meila (403 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 430 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 10,367 babies since 1880, Meila is the fifth most given (6.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 39 of their 204 babies (19%), the second 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 Meila
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 Meila and names like it
- Compare Meila and MeliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMeila peaked in 2018.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Meila since 1910.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Meila.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Meila alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.