Meira
Meira was given to 93 girls in 2025, #2,046 among girls’ names; 1,657 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,640 Americans named Meira and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 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 Meira by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Meira?
#2,046 among girls’ names, 2025
Meira rose from #3,166 in 2015 to #2,046 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 29.7 to 57.9 per million.
93 babies in 2025, the peak
Meira peaked in 2025, when 93 girls were given it, #2,046 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 65 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 93 | #2,046 | 57.9 |
| 2024 | 65 | #2,684 | 40.1 |
| 2023 | 59 | #2,876 | 36.8 |
| 2022 | 63 | #2,745 | 38.4 |
| 2021 | 72 | #2,476 | 43.9 |
| 2020 | 81 | #2,234 | 50.1 |
| 2019 | 61 | #2,778 | 36.3 |
| 2018 | 63 | #2,729 | 37.0 |
| 2017 | 62 | #2,768 | 35.9 |
| 2016 | 57 | #2,955 | 32.2 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 53 | #3,166 | 29.7 |
| 2014 | 55 | #3,068 | 30.8 |
| 2013 | 49 | #3,300 | 27.9 |
| 2012 | 50 | #3,303 | 28.4 |
| 2011 | 72 | #2,527 | 40.9 |
| 2010 | 50 | #3,288 | 28.1 |
| 2009 | 51 | #3,279 | 27.8 |
| 2008 | 47 | #3,516 | 24.9 |
| 2007 | 45 | #3,641 | 23.4 |
| 2006 | 48 | #3,400 | 25.2 |
| 2005 | 42 | #3,560 | 22.7 |
| 2004 | 37 | #3,873 | 20.1 |
| 2003 | 30 | #4,377 | 16.4 |
| 2002 | 28 | #4,463 | 15.6 |
| 2001 | 30 | #4,162 | 16.7 |
| 2000 | 26 | #4,616 | 14.3 |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,405 | 14.7 |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,887 | 12.5 |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,133 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,927 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,311 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,185 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,862 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,688 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,368 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,445 | 9.0 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,396 | 7.1 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,142 | 5.1 |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,220 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,515 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,765 | 5.8 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,514 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,082 | 5.4 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,196 | 6.5 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,164 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,867 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,513 | 6.2 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,206 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,028 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,012 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,665 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,264 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Meira a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Meira has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 52 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Meira: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Meira, and how old are they?
1,640 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,657 Americans ever recorded as Meira. The median Meira alive today is 13 years old; half are between 6 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 1,231 people named Meira (1,230 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,232 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 44 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 157 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 611 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 828 |
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 Meira born?
The states with the most babies named Meira are New York, New Jersey and California, with 90% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 25 | #671 | 3.5× |
| New Jersey | 12 | #650 | 2.5× |
| California | 9 | #2,222 | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,626 | 0.3× |
Where Meira is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Meira is most over-represented in New York: since 1973 it was given 3.5 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 Meira 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, Meira is the fifth most given (6.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 93 of their 435 babies (21%), 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 Meira
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 Meira and names like it
- Compare Meira and MerryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMeira peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Meira since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Meira.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Meira alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.