Meta — girls' name

What the Data Says About Meta

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,211 babies named Meta between 1880 and 2021, spanning 142 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Meta currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 1892, when 127 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Meta performed strongest in the 1890s, accumulating 1,104 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Meta shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 194 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Wisconsin. In total, SSA state-level files list Meta in 24 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Meta 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 6,211 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.