Meisha
Meisha was last recorded in 2022, when 8 babies were given it; 1,048 Americans have been recorded with it between 1967 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,020 Americans named Meisha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 30 and 45.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Meisha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Meisha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,876, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
61 babies in 1990, the peak
Meisha peaked in 1990, when 61 girls were given it, #2,139 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 8 | #11,876 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,816 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,072 | 5.4 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,562 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,495 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,698 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,418 | 6.8 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,500 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,476 | 8.0 |
| 2010 | 15 | #8,162 | 8.4 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 9 | #12,112 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,488 | 11.1 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,848 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,380 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,242 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,356 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,354 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,808 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,550 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,952 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,244 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,509 | 10.8 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,138 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 27 | #4,014 | 15.4 |
| 1995 | 20 | #4,953 | 11.4 |
| 1994 | 41 | #2,914 | 23.0 |
| 1993 | 34 | #3,321 | 18.8 |
| 1992 | 32 | #3,465 | 17.4 |
| 1991 | 31 | #3,501 | 16.5 |
| 1990 | 61 | #2,139 | 32.1 |
| 1989 | 41 | #2,743 | 22.2 |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,422 | 11.2 |
| 1987 | 41 | #2,512 | 23.6 |
| 1986 | 43 | #2,365 | 25.1 |
| 1985 | 31 | #2,981 | 18.0 |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,104 | 11.3 |
| 1983 | 27 | #3,117 | 16.2 |
| 1982 | 32 | #2,876 | 18.9 |
| 1981 | 39 | #2,476 | 23.4 |
| 1980 | 40 | #2,419 | 24.1 |
| 1979 | 33 | #2,707 | 20.6 |
| 1978 | 23 | #3,345 | 15.0 |
| 1977 | 27 | #2,967 | 17.6 |
| 1976 | 19 | #3,617 | 13.0 |
| 1975 | 20 | #3,469 | 13.7 |
| 1974 | 24 | #2,972 | 16.4 |
| 1973 | 19 | #3,419 | 13.0 |
| 1972 | 19 | #3,360 | 12.5 |
| 1971 | 13 | #4,453 | 7.8 |
| 1970 | 22 | #3,081 | 12.6 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,763 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,475 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Meisha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Meisha 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 Meisha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Meisha, and how old are they?
1,020 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,048 Americans ever recorded as Meisha. The median Meisha alive today is 37 years old; half are between 30 and 45.
The 2020 Census counted 986 people named Meisha (970 women and girls, 16 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,008 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 253 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 524 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 180 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 58 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 3,402 babies since 1880, Meisha is the second most given (31% 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 Meisha
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 Meisha and names like it
- Compare Meisha and MeshaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMeisha peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Meisha since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Meisha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Meisha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.