Meko
Meko was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,420 among boys’ names; 289 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Meko by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Meko?
#9,420 among boys’ names, 2025
Meko entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #9,420 in 2025.
16 babies in 1972, the peak
Meko peaked in 1972, when 16 babies were given it (6 boys, #4,776 among boys’ names). The 8 births of 2025 are 50% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 8 | #9,420 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 9 | #8,685 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 12 | #7,093 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 6 | #11,664 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 9 | #8,499 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 5 | #13,450 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 5 | #13,459 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 9 | #8,597 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 5 | #13,369 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 13 | #6,492 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | under 5 | 12 | #6,885 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 11 | #7,325 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 11 | #7,406 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 5 | #13,717 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 5 | #13,343 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 6 | #10,219 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 7 | #8,801 | |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,779 | 6 | #8,506 |
| 1993 | under 5 | 7 | #7,332 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 8 | #6,316 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 6 | #7,582 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 5 | #6,944 | |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,994 | 6 | #6,133 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,684 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,277 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,790 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,298 | 5 | #6,494 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,266 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,893 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,629 | 5 | #5,726 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,276 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,321 | 6 | #4,776 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,839 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,154 | 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 Meko a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 289 Americans recorded as Meko, 34% are girls and 66% boys. In 2025 it went to 8 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Meko: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Meko, and how old are they?
An estimated 279 Americans named Meko and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 13 and 49. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 352 people named Meko (147 women and girls, 205 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 240 born in the U.S. The Census count is 47% 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 15,277 babies since 1880, Meko is the fourth most given (1.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 237 babies (3.4%), the fifth 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.
More about Meko and names like it
- Compare Meko and MekhiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sMeko peaked in 1972.
- The top names of 1972The year the most babies were named Meko.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Meko alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with MMost given first.