Mecca
- #5,099 for girls in 2025, 25 births
- #2,108 for boys in 2025, 69 births
- Given to girls 73.4% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 1995 · 89 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,288since 1952
Mecca over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,099 | 25 | #2,108 | 69 |
| 2024 | #3,335 | 47 | #1,795 | 91 |
| 2023 | #2,975 | 56 | #1,608 | 108 |
| 2022 | #3,313 | 48 | #1,771 | 93 |
| 2021 | #3,735 | 40 | #2,109 | 68 |
| 2020 | #2,682 | 62 | #2,392 | 55 |
| 2019 | #3,388 | 46 | #2,556 | 51 |
| 2018 | #3,853 | 38 | #3,055 | 38 |
| 2017 | #3,996 | 37 | #2,637 | 47 |
| 2016 | #4,345 | 33 | #3,293 | 34 |
| 2015 | #6,036 | 21 | #3,431 | 32 |
| 2014 | #5,025 | 27 | #6,632 | 12 |
| 2013 | #6,729 | 18 | #7,026 | 11 |
| 2012 | #7,144 | 17 | #6,626 | 12 |
| 2011 | #7,783 | 15 | — | |
| 2010 | #7,880 | 15 | #12,231 | 5 |
| 2009 | #5,891 | 23 | — | |
| 2008 | #4,448 | 34 | #11,037 | 6 |
| 2007 | #4,944 | 29 | #12,367 | 5 |
| 2006 | #3,368 | 48 | — | |
| 2005 | #3,587 | 41 | #10,151 | 6 |
| 2004 | #3,490 | 42 | #6,976 | 10 |
| 2003 | #3,805 | 36 | #10,894 | 5 |
| 2002 | #2,976 | 49 | #5,725 | 12 |
| 2001 | #2,963 | 48 | — | |
| 2000 | #2,426 | 63 | #8,209 | 7 |
| 1999 | #2,018 | 77 | #6,042 | 10 |
| 1998 | #1,899 | 80 | #6,843 | 8 |
| 1997 | #2,116 | 66 | #5,642 | 10 |
| 1996 | #1,840 | 79 | #4,878 | 12 |
| 1995 | #1,651 | 89 | #6,992 | 7 |
| 1994 | #1,810 | 79 | — | |
| 1993 | #2,217 | 59 | — | |
| 1992 | #2,869 | 41 | — | |
| 1991 | #3,207 | 34 | — | |
| 1990 | #3,078 | 36 | — | |
| 1989 | #4,020 | 24 | — | |
| 1988 | #4,496 | 19 | — | |
| 1987 | #3,524 | 25 | — | |
| 1986 | #3,554 | 24 | — | |
| 1985 | #2,860 | 32 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,851 | 31 | — | |
| 1983 | #2,721 | 32 | — | |
| 1982 | #3,172 | 27 | — | |
| 1981 | #2,563 | 36 | — | |
| 1980 | #2,069 | 50 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,525 | 36 | — | |
| 1978 | #2,859 | 28 | — | |
| 1977 | #2,189 | 42 | — | |
| 1976 | #2,210 | 38 | — | |
| 1975 | #2,023 | 43 | #4,797 | 6 |
| 1974 | #2,922 | 24 | — | |
| 1973 | #2,455 | 30 | — | |
| 1972 | #2,747 | 25 | — | |
| 1971 | #2,477 | 30 | — | |
| 1970 | #3,110 | 21 | — | |
| 1969 | #3,199 | 18 | — | |
| 1968 | #3,789 | 13 | — | |
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| 1966 | #5,273 | 7 | — | |
| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 | — | |
| 1964 | #6,009 | 6 | — | |
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| 1962 | #6,578 | 5 | — | |
| 1961 | #4,882 | 8 | — | |
| 1960 | #5,696 | 6 | — | |
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First appearance
1952
The first year at least five girls were named Mecca! It came in at #5,563, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1952–1959, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Mecca is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
Top states · girls
- California#3,095 · 1 in 32,345
Best ever in a state: #401 in New Jersey, 1994.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | #3,095 | 5 | 1 in 32,345 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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Momentum · girls
Falling
- 1,764 spots since 2024 (#3,335 → #5,099)
- 2,417 spots since 2020 (#2,682 → #5,099)
- 937 spots since 2015 (#6,036 → #5,099)
Rise & fade · girls
43 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1952
- Peaked 1995 at #1,651 (89 births)
- Births halved by 2003, 8 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 19,759
- Highest: 1 in 19,759 girls born in 1995 were named Mecca (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 64,291 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1990s
- 28.0% of all girls named Mecca (640) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2021
- Mostly girls until 2020, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #5,563 (1952) | #5,563 |
| 1960s | 68 | #3,199 (1969) | #5,246 |
| 1970s | 317 | #2,023 (1975) | #2,552 |
| 1980s | 300 | #2,069 (1980) | #3,183 |
| 1990s | 640 | #1,651 (1995) | #2,271 |
| 2000s | 413 | #2,426 (2000) | #3,790 |
| 2010s | 267 | #3,388 (2019) | #5,618 |
| 2020s | 278 | #2,682 (2020) | #3,523 |
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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