Meah

Peak · girls
2006 · 122 births
Debut · girls
7 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,628
since 1979

Meah over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Meah has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank197019801990200020102020peak #1,709, 2006girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#7,13315
2024#7,59414
2023#8,98911
2022#7,63114
2021#4,41331
2020#6,08319
2019#5,16325
2018#3,34647
2017#2,81660
2016#3,13952
2015#2,55570
2014#2,53570
2013#2,34478
2012#2,49573
2011#2,36978
2010#2,22087
2009#2,19090
2008#2,60971
2007#1,957105
2006#1,709122
2005#1,838106
2004#1,97294
2003#2,39369
2002#3,10346
2001#4,56426
2000#5,49120
1999#5,42419
1998#5,79917
1997#5,41718
1996#9,5818
1995#13,3865
1994#9,5868
1993#13,4425
1992#11,7386
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1990#12,9585
1989#10,8476
1988#10,3866
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1985#10,6775
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1983#10,2755
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1981#8,1287
1980#7,4188
1979#8,0617
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First appearance
1979

The first year at least five girls were named Meah! It came in at #8,061, and was given to 7 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1982–1987, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Meah is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more girls named Meah in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Meah
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 461 spots since 2024 (#7,594 → #7,133)
  • 1,050 spots since 2020 (#6,083 → #7,133)
Rise & fade · girls
27 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1979
  • Peaked 2006 at #1,709 (122 births)
  • Births halved by 2016, 10 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 15,584
  • Highest: 1 in 15,584 girls born in 2006 were named Meah (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 107,151 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 46.0% of all girls named Meah (749) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s7#8,061 (1979)#8,061
1980s37#7,418 (1980)#9,622
1990s91#5,417 (1997)#9,703
2000s749#1,709 (2006)#2,783
2010s640#2,220 (2010)#2,898
2020s104#4,413 (2021)#6,974

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

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