Meta

Where Meta comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Meta.

  • Vowel-ended
Meta through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #253 among girls, with 37 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1884
    Peak, #216
    76 babies named Meta, its best rank.
  3. 1924
    Meta Velander born
    Swedish actress
  4. 1931
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,199.
  5. 1971
    Meta Golding born
    American actress
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Meta Golding · American actress, born 1971
  • Meta Velander · Swedish actress, 1924–2025
  • Meta Hrovat · Slovene alpine skier, born 1998
  • Meta Antenen · Swiss athletics competitor, born 1949
  • Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller · American artist, 1877–1968

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.