Mesha
Mesha was last recorded in 2018, when 5 babies were given it; 1,187 Americans have been recorded with it between 1963 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,140 Americans named Mesha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 33 and 48.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mesha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mesha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,340, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
55 babies in 1980, the peak
Mesha peaked in 1980, when 55 girls were given it, #1,955 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 5 | #17,340 | 2.9 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,343 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 8 | #13,043 | 4.5 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,626 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,460 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,119 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,331 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,491 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,100 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,772 | 8.1 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 12 | #9,080 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,127 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,642 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,553 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,133 | 9.9 |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,041 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,889 | 12.5 |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,760 | 12.6 |
| 1996 | 23 | #4,531 | 13.1 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,359 | 10.2 |
| 1994 | 35 | #3,278 | 19.6 |
| 1993 | 36 | #3,196 | 19.9 |
| 1992 | 36 | #3,185 | 19.5 |
| 1991 | 38 | #3,017 | 20.3 |
| 1990 | 50 | #2,450 | 26.3 |
| 1989 | 40 | #2,791 | 21.7 |
| 1988 | 29 | #3,358 | 16.3 |
| 1987 | 37 | #2,694 | 21.3 |
| 1986 | 22 | #3,839 | 12.8 |
| 1985 | 27 | #3,300 | 15.7 |
| 1984 | 39 | #2,449 | 23.2 |
| 1983 | 34 | #2,633 | 20.4 |
| 1982 | 42 | #2,350 | 24.8 |
| 1981 | 45 | #2,250 | 27.0 |
| 1980 | 55 | #1,955 | 33.1 |
| 1979 | 44 | #2,234 | 27.4 |
| 1978 | 43 | #2,176 | 28.1 |
| 1977 | 31 | #2,698 | 20.2 |
| 1976 | 42 | #2,087 | 28.7 |
| 1975 | 25 | #2,931 | 17.1 |
| 1974 | 44 | #1,948 | 30.0 |
| 1973 | 21 | #3,191 | 14.4 |
| 1972 | 34 | #2,261 | 22.4 |
| 1971 | 19 | #3,456 | 11.4 |
| 1970 | 30 | #2,492 | 17.2 |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,340 | 7.1 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,398 | 6.7 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,212 | 6.7 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,310 | 3.5 |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,158 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mesha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mesha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mesha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mesha, and how old are they?
1,140 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,187 Americans ever recorded as Mesha. The median Mesha alive today is 41 years old; half are between 33 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 1,226 people named Mesha (1,194 women and girls, 32 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,154 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 7 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 402 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 535 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 188 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 10 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 3,402 babies since 1880, Mesha is the most given (35% 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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Mesha
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 Mesha and names like it
- Compare Mesha and MeishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sMesha peaked in 1980.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mesha since 1910.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Mesha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Mesha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.