Mekkah — unisex name
16 babies named Mekkah in U.S. Social Security records since 1995, with the highest year being 1995. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
The verdict
16 girls have been named Mekkah since 1995, peaking in the 1990s, last recorded in 2001.
- 16
- total births
- 1995–2001
- years on record
- 1990s
- peak decade
- 69%
- born in that decade
69% of everyone ever named Mekkah was born in this single decade.
6 babies were named Mekkah in 1995 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Mekkah
The Social Security Administration has registered 16 babies named Mekkah between 1995 and 2001, spanning 7 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Mekkah currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2001. The name reached its historical peak in 1995, when 6 babies received it in a single year. Mekkah is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 10 additional births since 2020.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Mekkah performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 11 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Mekkah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Mekkah 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 16 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.
Mekkah at a glance
Last recorded 2001Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Mekkah popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2001–1995
- Peak year (1995)
- 6
- Annual births at peak — across 7 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2001.
16 total births across 7 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1995 with 6 births in a single year.
Mekkah popularity over time — boys
10 total births recorded since 2020 (Mekkah as boys' name)
Unisex use is substantial
The boys' variant of Mekkah accounts for 38% of total recorded use across both genders.
Mekkah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 11 births that decade — 69% of Mekkah's all-time total
Mekkah decade highlights
- Peak decade 11 births
- Runner-up 5 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Mekkah's strongest decade
11 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 69% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1995–2001 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.