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Meadow: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,078 in 2025. Its best rank was #286 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Meadow in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#286 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Meadow: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,078 girls in 2025. Peak: #286 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 1,078 (2025).
In 2025, 1,078 US girls were named Meadow, making it the 286th most common girls’ name of the year, up 39 places from #325 in 2024. That is 125 more than the 953 girls named Meadow in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #286, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,078. For comparison, it was #673 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Meadow in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 6 babies. In all, 12,355 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 4,959 babies named Meadow.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 7,005 US girls were named Meadow; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 1,078. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,491 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Meadow ranked highest in West Virginia in 2025, at #103 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state.
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US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 9 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | 15 | #103 | — |
| Rhode Island | 8 | #116 | — |
| Oregon | 25 | #136 | #768 |
| Maine | 8 | #146 | — |
| Connecticut | 20 | #157 | #486 |
| Pennsylvania | 63 | #177 | #397 |
| Massachusetts | 30 | #187 | #437 |
| Montana | 6 | #197 | #165 |
| Delaware | 5 | #207 | — |
| Oklahoma | 19 | #213 | #642 |
| Missouri | 29 | #215 | #813 |
| Ohio | 51 | #225 | #651 |
| Idaho | 10 | #233 | — |
| New Jersey | 36 | #234 | #696 |
| Michigan | 38 | #241 | #759 |
| Kansas | 13 | #248 | #506 |
| New York | 68 | #252 | #702 |
| Colorado | 25 | #262 | #522 |
| Iowa | 13 | #270 | — |
| Washington | 27 | #271 | #483 |
| New Mexico | 6 | #283 | #446 |
| Maryland | 18 | #294 | #750 |
| Utah | 15 | #299 | #540 |
| Illinois | 34 | #320 | #839 |
| Tennessee | 25 | #327 | #727 |
| California | 97 | #337 | #834 |
| Alabama | 15 | #339 | — |
| Texas | 98 | #356 | #953 |
| Virginia | 23 | #357 | #827 |
| Nevada | 8 | #360 | — |
| Nebraska | 6 | #377 | #487 |
| Kentucky | 12 | #377 | #828 |
| Minnesota | 14 | #392 | #648 |
| Florida | 48 | #393 | #823 |
| Georgia | 29 | #397 | #1,454 |
| Wisconsin | 13 | #411 | #823 |
| Louisiana | 11 | #414 | — |
| Arkansas | 8 | #417 | — |
| North Carolina | 26 | #437 | #806 |
| Indiana | 16 | #438 | #665 |
| Arizona | 14 | #505 | #480 |
| South Carolina | 10 | #508 | #728 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,078 | #286 | — | — |
| 2024 | 953 | #325 | — | — |
| 2023 | 870 | #351 | 6 | #11,770 |
| 2022 | 776 | #405 | 6 | #11,803 |
| 2021 | 624 | #499 | — | — |
| 2020 | 646 | #476 | — | — |
| 2019 | 630 | #498 | — | — |
| 2018 | 608 | #514 | — | — |
| 2017 | 394 | #725 | — | — |
| 2016 | 426 | #687 | — | — |
| 2015 | 424 | #673 | — | — |
| 2014 | 374 | #751 | — | — |
| 2013 | 257 | #979 | — | — |
| 2012 | 267 | #952 | — | — |
| 2011 | 294 | #890 | — | — |
| 2010 | 304 | #875 | — | — |
| 2009 | 321 | #867 | — | — |
| 2008 | 325 | #856 | — | — |
| 2007 | 381 | #765 | — | — |
| 2006 | 342 | #803 | — | — |
| 2005 | 295 | #856 | — | — |
| 2004 | 339 | #767 | — | — |
| 2003 | 326 | #761 | — | — |
| 2002 | 269 | #859 | — | — |
| 2001 | 293 | #806 | — | — |
| 2000 | 134 | #1,392 | — | — |
| 1999 | 38 | #3,357 | — | — |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,978 | — | — |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,383 | — | — |
| 1996 | 20 | #4,990 | — | — |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,859 | — | — |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,431 | — | — |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,466 | — | — |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,562 | — | — |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,396 | — | — |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,185 | — | — |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,592 | — | — |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,775 | — | — |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,195 | — | — |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,108 | — | — |
| 1980 | 21 | #3,797 | — | — |
| 1979 | 21 | #3,737 | — | — |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,860 | — | — |
| 1977 | 23 | #3,336 | — | — |
| 1976 | 23 | #3,155 | — | — |
| 1975 | 26 | #2,856 | — | — |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,362 | — | — |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,093 | — | — |
| 1972 | 15 | #4,022 | — | — |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,388 | — | — |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,828 | — | — |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,152 | — | — |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,479 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).