Mei
#1,733 for girls in 2025, 117 births
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 117 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,859since 1947
Mei over time
Rank among girls' names. Mei has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,733 | 117 |
| 2024 | #1,955 | 101 |
| 2023 | #2,314 | 79 |
| 2022 | #2,995 | 55 |
| 2021 | #2,608 | 66 |
| 2020 | #2,597 | 65 |
| 2019 | #2,752 | 61 |
| 2018 | #2,647 | 65 |
| 2017 | #3,091 | 52 |
| 2016 | #3,010 | 55 |
| 2015 | #3,533 | 44 |
| 2014 | #3,272 | 49 |
| 2013 | #3,404 | 46 |
| 2012 | #3,915 | 39 |
| 2011 | #3,843 | 39 |
| 2010 | #4,397 | 33 |
| 2009 | #3,512 | 46 |
| 2008 | #4,647 | 32 |
| 2007 | #3,428 | 48 |
| 2006 | #3,414 | 47 |
| 2005 | #4,267 | 32 |
| 2004 | #3,989 | 35 |
| 2003 | #3,232 | 45 |
| 2002 | #4,179 | 30 |
| 2001 | #4,209 | 29 |
| 2000 | #3,271 | 41 |
| 1999 | #5,039 | 21 |
| 1998 | #6,719 | 14 |
| 1997 | #4,125 | 26 |
| 1996 | #6,064 | 15 |
| 1995 | #4,677 | 21 |
| 1994 | #7,097 | 12 |
| 1993 | #3,877 | 27 |
| 1992 | #5,484 | 17 |
| 1991 | #5,399 | 17 |
| 1990 | #4,523 | 21 |
| 1989 | #5,836 | 14 |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 |
| 1987 | #6,335 | 11 |
| 1986 | #5,757 | 12 |
| 1985 | #4,455 | 17 |
| 1984 | #6,291 | 10 |
| 1983 | #4,476 | 16 |
| 1982 | #4,716 | 15 |
| 1981 | #4,963 | 14 |
| 1980 | #4,148 | 18 |
| 1979 | #4,231 | 17 |
| 1978 | #3,777 | 19 |
| 1977 | #5,213 | 12 |
| 1976 | #4,363 | 14 |
| 1975 | #5,984 | 9 |
| 1974 | #4,459 | 13 |
| 1973 | #6,080 | 8 |
| 1972 | #5,109 | 10 |
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| 1970 | #5,818 | 8 |
| 1969 | #5,974 | 7 |
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| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 |
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| 1964 | #4,355 | 10 |
| 1963 | #4,896 | 8 |
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| 1960 | #5,168 | 7 |
| 1959 | #6,245 | 5 |
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| 1957 | #5,377 | 6 |
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| 1953 | #5,673 | 5 |
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| 1949 | #4,673 | 6 |
| 1948 | #4,651 | 6 |
| 1947 | #4,764 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Mei! It came in at #4,764, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1950–1956, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Mei is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Utah#704 · 1 in 3,415
- Arizona#818 · 1 in 4,031
- Washington#915 · 1 in 4,810
- New York#1,087 · 1 in 6,025
- California#1,361 · 1 in 9,513
Best ever in a state: #185 in Hawaii, 2020.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Utah | #704 | 5 | 1 in 3,415 |
| Arizona | #818 | 7 | 1 in 4,031 |
| Washington | #915 | 6 | 1 in 4,810 |
| New York | #1,087 | 13 | 1 in 6,025 |
| California | #1,361 | 17 | 1 in 9,513 |
| Texas | #2,038 | 10 | 1 in 16,054 |
| Florida | #2,151 | 5 | 1 in 17,352 |
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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.
See more about Mei
- 222 spots since 2024 (#1,955 → #1,733)
- 864 spots since 2020 (#2,597 → #1,733)
- 1,800 spots since 2015 (#3,533 → #1,733)
- Debuted 1947
- Peaked 2025 at #1,733 (117 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 13,737 girls born in 2025 were named Mei (0.01%)
- 26.0% of all girls named Mei (483) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 18 | #4,651 (1948) | #4,696 |
| 1950s | 16 | #5,377 (1957) | #5,765 |
| 1960s | 37 | #4,355 (1964) | #5,439 |
| 1970s | 110 | #3,777 (1978) | #5,004 |
| 1980s | 136 | #4,148 (1980) | #5,467 |
| 1990s | 191 | #3,877 (1993) | #5,300 |
| 2000s | 385 | #3,232 (2003) | #3,815 |
| 2010s | 483 | #2,647 (2018) | #3,386 |
| 2020s | 483 | #1,733 (2025) | #2,367 |
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.
Mei in 2025
Top girls' names in 2025
More about 2025
girls
1,607,267 girls got a published name in 2025; 1 in 13,737 of them was named Mei, which outranked 90.0% of the 17,297 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880).
- #1,721Rayah118
- #1,721Valencia118
- #1,721Zyra118
- #1,733Mei117
- #1,733Alany117
- #1,733America117
- #1,733Aryah117
- #1,747Ahlani116
- #1,747Callahan116
- #1,747Eira116
Tied with 13 names at #1,733; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.