Meira
- #2,036 for girls in 2025, 93 births
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 93 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,657since 1973
Meira over time
Rank among girls' names. Meira 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 | #2,036 | 93 |
| 2024 | #2,661 | 65 |
| 2023 | #2,852 | 59 |
| 2022 | #2,720 | 63 |
| 2021 | #2,460 | 72 |
| 2020 | #2,216 | 81 |
| 2019 | #2,752 | 61 |
| 2018 | #2,711 | 63 |
| 2017 | #2,744 | 62 |
| 2016 | #2,934 | 57 |
| 2015 | #3,129 | 53 |
| 2014 | #3,041 | 55 |
| 2013 | #3,267 | 49 |
| 2012 | #3,267 | 50 |
| 2011 | #2,511 | 72 |
| 2010 | #3,256 | 50 |
| 2009 | #3,252 | 51 |
| 2008 | #3,478 | 47 |
| 2007 | #3,601 | 45 |
| 2006 | #3,368 | 48 |
| 2005 | #3,509 | 42 |
| 2004 | #3,819 | 37 |
| 2003 | #4,307 | 30 |
| 2002 | #4,381 | 28 |
| 2001 | #4,107 | 30 |
| 2000 | #4,527 | 26 |
| 1999 | #4,313 | 26 |
| 1998 | #4,796 | 22 |
| 1997 | #6,844 | 13 |
| 1996 | #7,574 | 11 |
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 |
| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 |
| 1993 | #7,498 | 11 |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 |
| 1991 | #7,987 | 10 |
| 1990 | #5,286 | 17 |
| 1989 | #6,160 | 13 |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 |
| 1987 | #5,074 | 15 |
| 1986 | #7,134 | 9 |
| 1985 | #6,457 | 10 |
| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 |
| 1983 | #6,705 | 9 |
| 1982 | #5,911 | 11 |
| 1981 | #5,885 | 11 |
| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 |
| 1979 | #6,189 | 10 |
| 1978 | #7,649 | 7 |
| 1977 | — | |
| 1976 | #6,611 | 8 |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 |
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Meira! It came in at #8,423, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1977, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Meira is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#618 · 1 in 2,958
- New York#658 · 1 in 3,133
- Ohio#1,438 · 1 in 9,454
- California#2,093 · 1 in 17,969
Best ever in a state: #618 in New Jersey, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #618 | 12 | 1 in 2,958 |
| New York | #658 | 25 | 1 in 3,133 |
| Ohio | #1,438 | 5 | 1 in 9,454 |
| California | #2,093 | 9 | 1 in 17,969 |
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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 Meira
- 625 spots since 2024 (#2,661 → #2,036)
- 180 spots since 2020 (#2,216 → #2,036)
- 1,093 spots since 2015 (#3,129 → #2,036)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 2025 at #2,036 (93 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 17,282 girls born in 2025 were named Meira (0.01%)
- 34.5% of all girls named Meira (572) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 40 | #6,189 (1979) | #7,786 |
| 1980s | 98 | #5,074 (1987) | #7,053 |
| 1990s | 130 | #4,313 (1999) | #7,772 |
| 2000s | 384 | #3,252 (2009) | #3,835 |
| 2010s | 572 | #2,511 (2011) | #2,961 |
| 2020s | 433 | #2,036 (2025) | #2,491 |
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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