Boys' name · since 2009
Meshal
51 babies named Meshal in U.S. Social Security records since 2009, with the highest year being 2016. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 51
- total births
- 2009–2022
- years on record
- 2010s
- peak decade
- 80%
- born in that decade
51 boys have been named Meshal since 2009, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Meshal has 51 recorded births among boys since 2009, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used boys names, busiest in the 2010s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2009 to 2022.
- 51 total births
- 2009–2022 years on record
- 2010s peak decade
- 80% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Meshal's 51 recorded births place it above 51% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Meshal's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Meshal's SSA record in two at 2016 and the more recent half accounts for 55% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 45%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 2009, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2016 peak of 9, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Meshal popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2009–2022
- Peak year (2016)
- 9
- Annual births at peak, across 14 years of records
Meshal by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
2010s was Meshal's strongest decade.
41 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 80% of all-time use.
Meshal births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s 5
2000s
5 births
- 2010s
2010s
41 births
- 2020s 5
2020s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 2010s at 41 births (80% of all-time use).
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- Meshal's decade-level peak was the 2010s (41 total births); usage has since declined to 5 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2009–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Meshal: Baby Name Since 2009 - 51 Births, Peak 2016." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/meshal. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Meshal draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.