Meaning not yet researched.
Mei: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 117 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,744 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 Mei in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,744 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Mei: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 117 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,744 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 117 (2025).
In 2025, 117 US girls were named Mei, making it the 1,744th most common girls’ name of the year, up 217 places from #1,961 in 2024. That is 16 more than the 101 girls named Mei in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,744, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 117. For comparison, it was #3,576 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mei in 66 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1947 with 6 babies. In all, 1,859 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 483 babies named Mei.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 716 US girls were named Mei; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 117. In 2025 that was about 1 in 13,737 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Mei ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #791 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Mia (310,610 babies since 1880), Mya (62,363 babies since 1880), Myia (2,267 babies since 1880) and Mea (1,690 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Meuy 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: Meuy (43).
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 Mei in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 5 | #791 | — |
| Arizona | 7 | #881 | — |
| Washington | 6 | #1,007 | — |
| New York | 13 | #1,131 | — |
| California | 17 | #1,395 | #1,893 |
| Texas | 10 | #2,153 | — |
| Florida | 5 | #2,380 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 117 | #1,744 | — | — |
| 2024 | 101 | #1,961 | — | — |
| 2023 | 79 | #2,328 | — | — |
| 2022 | 55 | #3,018 | — | — |
| 2021 | 66 | #2,628 | — | — |
| 2020 | 65 | #2,619 | — | — |
| 2019 | 61 | #2,777 | — | — |
| 2018 | 65 | #2,672 | — | — |
| 2017 | 52 | #3,124 | — | — |
| 2016 | 55 | #3,046 | — | — |
| 2015 | 44 | #3,576 | — | — |
| 2014 | 49 | #3,306 | — | — |
| 2013 | 46 | #3,443 | — | — |
| 2012 | 39 | #3,968 | — | — |
| 2011 | 39 | #3,888 | — | — |
| 2010 | 33 | #4,465 | — | — |
| 2009 | 46 | #3,549 | — | — |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,727 | — | — |
| 2007 | 48 | #3,454 | — | — |
| 2006 | 47 | #3,451 | — | — |
| 2005 | 32 | #4,333 | — | — |
| 2004 | 35 | #4,063 | — | — |
| 2003 | 45 | #3,273 | — | — |
| 2002 | 30 | #4,246 | — | — |
| 2001 | 29 | #4,288 | — | — |
| 2000 | 41 | #3,320 | — | — |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,151 | — | — |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,962 | — | — |
| 1997 | 26 | #4,201 | — | — |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,260 | — | — |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,790 | — | — |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,432 | — | — |
| 1993 | 27 | #3,951 | — | — |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,634 | — | — |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,574 | — | — |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,626 | — | — |
| 1989 | 14 | #6,029 | — | — |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,146 | — | — |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,614 | — | — |
| 1986 | 12 | #6,018 | — | — |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,579 | — | — |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,596 | — | — |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,606 | — | — |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,855 | — | — |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,137 | — | — |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,245 | — | — |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,351 | — | — |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,861 | — | — |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,414 | — | — |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,505 | — | — |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,262 | — | — |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,621 | — | — |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,445 | — | — |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,321 | — | — |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,153 | — | — |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,375 | — | — |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,475 | — | — |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,542 | — | — |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,153 | — | — |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,520 | — | — |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,891 | — | — |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,853 | — | — |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,239 | — | — |
| 1949 | 6 | #5,058 | — | — |
| 1948 | 6 | #5,065 | — | — |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,111 | — | — |
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).