Meir
Meir was given to 248 boys in 2025, #948 among boys’ names; 4,612 Americans have been recorded with it since 1951 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,520 Americans named Meir and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 5 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Meir by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Meir?
#948 among boys’ names, 2025
Meir rose from #1,212 in 2015 to #948 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.08 to 0.15 per 1,000.
258 babies in 2024, the peak
Meir peaked in 2024, when 258 boys were given it, #908 among boys’ names. The 248 births of 2025 are 96% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 248 | #948 | 0.15 |
| 2024 | 258 | #908 | 0.15 |
| 2023 | 244 | #931 | 0.14 |
| 2022 | 234 | #969 | 0.13 |
| 2021 | 188 | #1,106 | 0.11 |
| 2020 | 222 | #970 | 0.13 |
| 2019 | 197 | #1,045 | 0.11 |
| 2018 | 190 | #1,065 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 175 | #1,108 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 156 | #1,215 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 152 | #1,212 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 148 | #1,233 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 111 | #1,480 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 126 | #1,354 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 119 | #1,402 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 118 | #1,412 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 94 | #1,680 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 109 | #1,501 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 114 | #1,429 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 77 | #1,804 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 88 | #1,579 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 79 | #1,645 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 59 | #1,972 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 60 | #1,879 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 50 | #2,102 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 45 | #2,209 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 45 | #2,124 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 54 | #1,839 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 59 | #1,684 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 52 | #1,774 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 40 | #2,074 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 44 | #1,910 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 37 | #2,146 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 42 | #1,942 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 54 | #1,577 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 28 | #2,465 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 42 | #1,813 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 41 | #1,722 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 31 | #2,002 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 31 | #1,946 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 21 | #2,478 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 25 | #2,136 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 24 | #2,183 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 27 | #2,037 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 12 | #3,537 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 18 | #2,689 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 16 | #2,856 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 23 | #2,111 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 17 | #2,619 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 15 | #2,777 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 20 | #2,261 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 11 | #3,250 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 14 | #2,669 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,281 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 16 | #2,436 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 11 | #3,007 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 16 | #2,194 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,348 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,788 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,258 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 8 | #3,197 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 8 | #3,216 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 9 | #2,972 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,312 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,827 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 6 | #3,592 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Meir a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Meir has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 66 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Meir: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Meir, and how old are they?
4,520 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 4,612 Americans ever recorded as Meir. The median Meir alive today is 12 years old; half are between 5 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 3,369 people named Meir (23 women and girls, 3,346 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,210 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 31 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 179 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 525 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,280 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,510 |
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 Meir born?
The states with the most babies named Meir are New York, New Jersey and Florida, with 91% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 110 | #177 | 8.6× |
| New Jersey | 91 | #105 | 8.5× |
| Florida | 11 | #1,174 | 0.3× |
| California | 10 | #1,655 | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,206 | 0.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,368 | 0.0× |
Where Meir is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Meir is most over-represented in New York: since 1951 it was given 8.6 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 boys’ 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 Meir 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 10,483 babies since 1880, Meir is the second most given (44% of them). In 2025 it was given to 248 of their 368 babies (67%), 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 Meir
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 Meir and names like it
- Compare Meir and MeyerBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMeir peaked in 2024.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Meir since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Meir.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Meir alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.