Mera
Mera was given to 13 girls in 2025, #8,181 among girls’ names; 587 Americans have been recorded with it since 1927 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mera by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mera?
#8,181 among girls’ names, 2025
Mera fell from #6,386 in 2015 to #8,181 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 11.2 to 8.1 per million.
65 babies in 2019, the peak
Mera peaked in 2019, when 65 girls were given it, #2,671 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,181 | 8.1 |
| 2024 | 30 | #4,628 | 18.5 |
| 2023 | 34 | #4,250 | 21.2 |
| 2022 | 29 | #4,747 | 17.7 |
| 2021 | 43 | #3,596 | 26.2 |
| 2020 | 47 | #3,319 | 29.1 |
| 2019 | 65 | #2,671 | 38.7 |
| 2018 | 39 | #3,826 | 22.9 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,610 | 13.3 |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,921 | 12.4 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #6,386 | 11.2 |
| 2014 | 23 | #5,740 | 12.9 |
| 2013 | 11 | #10,014 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 18 | #7,059 | 10.2 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,482 | 8.0 |
| 2010 | 8 | #13,072 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,569 | 3.3 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,792 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,588 | 5.7 |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,193 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,988 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,677 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,121 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,209 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,682 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,372 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,648 | 4.0 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,570 | 2.7 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,795 | 3.3 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,767 | 5.8 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,779 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,621 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,484 | 3.0 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,137 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,839 | 2.9 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,997 | 3.6 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,867 | 4.7 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,356 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mera a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mera has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mera: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mera, and how old are they?
An estimated 571 Americans named Mera and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 5 and 15. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 747 people named Mera (736 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 391 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 times 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 25,350 babies since 1880, Mera is the eighth most given (2.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 433 babies (3.0%), the fourth 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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Mera
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 Mera and names like it
- Compare Mera and MerryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Mera.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Mera alive today were born 2013-2025.
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