Meaning not yet researched.
Mecca: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 69 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,617 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,617 in 2023; #2,121 in 2025. About 73% of babies named Mecca in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,121 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #1,617.
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Mecca: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 69 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,617 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 108 (2023).
In 2025, 69 US boys were named Mecca, making it the 2,121st most common boys’ name of the year, down 319 places from #1,802 in 2024. That is 22 fewer than the 91 boys named Mecca in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,617, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 108. For comparison, it was #3,487 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 25 US girls were named Mecca, making it the 5,182nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,815 places from #3,367 in 2024. That is 22 fewer than the 47 girls named Mecca in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,664, reached in 1995. That year also had the most girls given the name: 89. For comparison, it was #6,173 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mecca in 65 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1952 with 5 babies. In all, 3,118 US babies have been given the name, 73% of them girls and 27% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 762 babies named Mecca.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 654 US boys were named Mecca; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 108. In 2025 that was about 1 in 24,755 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Mecca ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #1,857 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Mica (3,695 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Mecca in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 9 | #1,857 | — |
| California | 5 | #2,677 | #2,451 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #5,182 | 69 | #2,121 |
| 2024 | 47 | #3,367 | 91 | #1,802 |
| 2023 | 56 | #3,004 | 108 | #1,617 |
| 2022 | 48 | #3,352 | 93 | #1,777 |
| 2021 | 40 | #3,781 | 68 | #2,124 |
| 2020 | 62 | #2,704 | 55 | #2,409 |
| 2019 | 46 | #3,429 | 51 | #2,574 |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,901 | 38 | #3,085 |
| 2017 | 37 | #4,047 | 47 | #2,657 |
| 2016 | 33 | #4,407 | 34 | #3,339 |
| 2015 | 21 | #6,173 | 32 | #3,487 |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,120 | 12 | #6,926 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,927 | 11 | #7,376 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,359 | 12 | #6,889 |
| 2011 | 15 | #8,066 | — | — |
| 2010 | 15 | #8,165 | 5 | #13,586 |
| 2009 | 23 | #6,025 | — | — |
| 2008 | 34 | #4,518 | 6 | #12,061 |
| 2007 | 29 | #5,053 | 5 | #13,716 |
| 2006 | 48 | #3,400 | — | — |
| 2005 | 41 | #3,626 | 6 | #11,013 |
| 2004 | 42 | #3,547 | 10 | #7,358 |
| 2003 | 36 | #3,852 | 5 | #12,103 |
| 2002 | 49 | #3,000 | 12 | #5,954 |
| 2001 | 48 | #2,999 | — | — |
| 2000 | 63 | #2,448 | 7 | #8,805 |
| 1999 | 77 | #2,031 | 10 | #6,343 |
| 1998 | 80 | #1,913 | 8 | #7,304 |
| 1997 | 66 | #2,125 | 10 | #5,943 |
| 1996 | 79 | #1,854 | 12 | #5,085 |
| 1995 | 89 | #1,664 | 7 | #7,524 |
| 1994 | 79 | #1,821 | — | — |
| 1993 | 59 | #2,231 | — | — |
| 1992 | 41 | #2,901 | — | — |
| 1991 | 34 | #3,266 | — | — |
| 1990 | 36 | #3,125 | — | — |
| 1989 | 24 | #4,080 | — | — |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,593 | — | — |
| 1987 | 25 | #3,590 | — | — |
| 1986 | 24 | #3,608 | — | — |
| 1985 | 32 | #2,910 | — | — |
| 1984 | 31 | #2,890 | — | — |
| 1983 | 32 | #2,758 | — | — |
| 1982 | 27 | #3,228 | — | — |
| 1981 | 36 | #2,598 | — | — |
| 1980 | 50 | #2,086 | — | — |
| 1979 | 36 | #2,559 | — | — |
| 1978 | 28 | #2,911 | — | — |
| 1977 | 42 | #2,201 | — | — |
| 1976 | 38 | #2,239 | — | — |
| 1975 | 43 | #2,042 | 6 | #5,222 |
| 1974 | 24 | #2,971 | — | — |
| 1973 | 30 | #2,485 | — | — |
| 1972 | 25 | #2,797 | — | — |
| 1971 | 30 | #2,521 | — | — |
| 1970 | 21 | #3,170 | — | — |
| 1969 | 18 | #3,277 | — | — |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,923 | — | — |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,619 | — | — |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,174 | — | — |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,513 | — | — |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,212 | — | — |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,144 | — | — |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,147 | — | — |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,128 | — | — |
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).