Meisha — girls' name

What the Data Says About Meisha

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,048 babies named Meisha between 1967 and 2022, spanning 56 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Meisha currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 61 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Meisha performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 333 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Meisha shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 32 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Meisha in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Meisha in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,048 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.