Mekiah
Mekiah was last recorded in 2020, when 5 babies were given it; 181 Americans have been recorded with it between 1997 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mekiah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mekiah?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,607, in 2011; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
25 babies in 2002, the peak
Mekiah peaked in 2002, when 25 babies were given it (16 girls, #6,931 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | under 5 | 5 | #13,384 | |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,607 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 7 | #10,377 | |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,217 | 6 | #11,954 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,478 | 5 | #13,904 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,480 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,157 | 5 | #13,342 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,248 | 7 | #9,788 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,358 | 9 | #7,958 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,871 | 5 | #12,101 |
Every recorded year (16)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 16 | #6,931 | 9 | #7,435 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,972 | 6 | #10,097 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,674 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,815 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,535 | 7 | #8,153 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,271 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Mekiah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 181 Americans recorded as Mekiah, 61% are girls and 39% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Mekiah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mekiah, and how old are they?
An estimated 179 Americans named Mekiah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 19 and 24. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 211 people named Mekiah (119 women and girls, 92 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 176 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 1,491 babies since 1880, Mekiah is the fourth most given (12% 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.
More about Mekiah and names like it
- Compare Mekiah and MekaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMekiah peaked in 2002.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Mekiah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mekiah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.