Meaning not yet researched.
Meara: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 53 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,519 in 2015.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,519 in 2015; #3,091 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Meara in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,091 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2015, at #2,519.
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Meara: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 53 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,519 in 2015 · most girls in one year: 72 (2015).
In 2025, 53 US girls were named Meara, making it the 3,091st most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,174 places from #4,265 in 2024. That is 19 more than the 34 girls named Meara in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,519, reached in 2015. That year also had the most girls given the name: 72. For comparison, it was #2,519 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Meara in 49 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1973 with 6 babies. In all, 1,436 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 540 babies named Meara.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 444 US girls were named Meara; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 64. In 2025 that was about 1 in 30,326 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Myra (63,967 babies since 1880), Mira (15,101 babies since 1880), Meera (4,259 babies since 1880) and Meira (1,657 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Meraya are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Meraya (10).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Meara in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 53 | #3,091 | — | — |
| 2024 | 34 | #4,265 | — | — |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,496 | — | — |
| 2022 | 39 | #3,872 | — | — |
| 2021 | 34 | #4,212 | — | — |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,981 | — | — |
| 2019 | 50 | #3,208 | — | — |
| 2018 | 64 | #2,705 | — | — |
| 2017 | 59 | #2,863 | — | — |
| 2016 | 52 | #3,172 | — | — |
| 2015 | 72 | #2,519 | — | — |
| 2014 | 66 | #2,673 | — | — |
| 2013 | 62 | #2,798 | — | — |
| 2012 | 53 | #3,156 | — | — |
| 2011 | 35 | #4,211 | — | — |
| 2010 | 27 | #5,203 | — | — |
| 2009 | 29 | #5,044 | — | — |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,058 | — | — |
| 2007 | 47 | #3,514 | — | — |
| 2006 | 45 | #3,540 | — | — |
| 2005 | 50 | #3,154 | — | — |
| 2004 | 41 | #3,602 | — | — |
| 2003 | 31 | #4,278 | — | — |
| 2002 | 33 | #3,946 | — | — |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,645 | — | — |
| 2000 | 35 | #3,709 | — | — |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,822 | — | — |
| 1998 | 29 | #3,992 | — | — |
| 1997 | 28 | #3,971 | — | — |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,689 | — | — |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,499 | — | — |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,943 | — | — |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,905 | — | — |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,530 | — | — |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,770 | — | — |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,667 | — | — |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,805 | — | — |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,950 | — | — |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,773 | — | — |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,212 | — | — |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,781 | — | — |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,873 | — | — |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,772 | — | — |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,120 | — | — |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,163 | — | — |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,858 | — | — |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,275 | — | — |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,080 | — | — |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,046 | — | — |
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).