Meara
- #3,067 for girls in 2025, 53 births
- Peak · girls
- 2015 · 72 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,436since 1973
Meara over time
Rank among girls' names. Meara has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,067 | 53 |
| 2024 | #4,207 | 34 |
| 2023 | #5,390 | 23 |
| 2022 | #3,827 | 39 |
| 2021 | #4,167 | 34 |
| 2020 | #3,915 | 36 |
| 2019 | #3,172 | 50 |
| 2018 | #2,677 | 64 |
| 2017 | #2,835 | 59 |
| 2016 | #3,139 | 52 |
| 2015 | #2,501 | 72 |
| 2014 | #2,648 | 66 |
| 2013 | #2,769 | 62 |
| 2012 | #3,134 | 53 |
| 2011 | #4,151 | 35 |
| 2010 | #5,108 | 27 |
| 2009 | #4,931 | 29 |
| 2008 | #4,006 | 39 |
| 2007 | #3,482 | 47 |
| 2006 | #3,505 | 45 |
| 2005 | #3,126 | 50 |
| 2004 | #3,566 | 41 |
| 2003 | #4,220 | 31 |
| 2002 | #3,889 | 33 |
| 2001 | #4,564 | 26 |
| 2000 | #3,664 | 35 |
| 1999 | #4,718 | 23 |
| 1998 | #3,914 | 29 |
| 1997 | #3,897 | 28 |
| 1996 | #5,531 | 17 |
| 1995 | #6,257 | 14 |
| 1994 | #6,672 | 13 |
| 1993 | #6,622 | 13 |
| 1992 | #6,314 | 14 |
| 1991 | #7,430 | 11 |
| 1990 | #7,303 | 11 |
| 1989 | #6,531 | 12 |
| 1988 | #6,666 | 11 |
| 1987 | #7,353 | 9 |
| 1986 | #7,749 | 8 |
| 1985 | #4,635 | 16 |
| 1984 | #7,398 | 8 |
| 1983 | #7,312 | 8 |
| 1982 | #4,025 | 19 |
| 1981 | #5,885 | 11 |
| 1980 | #7,418 | 8 |
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 |
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| 1977 | #7,567 | 7 |
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| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Meara! It came in at #7,435, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1974–1976, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Meara is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Washington#915 · 1 in 4,810
- California#3,095 · 1 in 32,345
Best ever in a state: #787 in Maryland, 2018.
Show every state
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| Washington | #915 | 6 | 1 in 4,810 |
| California | #3,095 | 5 | 1 in 32,345 |
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See more about Meara
- 1,140 spots since 2024 (#4,207 → #3,067)
- 848 spots since 2020 (#3,915 → #3,067)
- 566 spots since 2015 (#2,501 → #3,067)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 2015 at #2,501 (72 births)
- Births halved by 2020, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 24,793 girls born in 2015 were named Meara (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 30,326 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 37.6% of all girls named Meara (540) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1970s | 18 | #7,435 (1973) | #8,404 |
| 1980s | 110 | #4,025 (1982) | #6,497 |
| 1990s | 173 | #3,897 (1997) | #5,866 |
| 2000s | 376 | #3,126 (2005) | #3,895 |
| 2010s | 540 | #2,501 (2015) | #3,213 |
| 2020s | 219 | #3,067 (2025) | #4,096 |
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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