Meaning not yet researched.
Meir: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 248 in 2025. Its best rank was #908 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #908 in 2024; #948 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Meir in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#948 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #908.
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Meir: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 248 boys in 2025. Peak: #908 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 258 (2024).
In 2025, 248 US boys were named Meir, making it the 948th most common boys’ name of the year, down 40 places from #908 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 258 boys named Meir in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #908, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 258. For comparison, it was #1,212 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Meir in 66 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1951 with 6 babies. In all, 4,612 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,492 babies named Meir.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,112 US boys were named Meir; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 258. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,887 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Meir ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #105 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Meyer (5,612 babies since 1880), Mayer (2,613 babies since 1880) and Mihir (1,486 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Mir, Myheir and Myair 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: Mir (556), Myheir (260), Myair (82), Myhir (20), Miheir (13), Mior (7).
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 Meir 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 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 91 | #105 | #215 |
| New York | 110 | #177 | #272 |
| Florida | 11 | #1,174 | #1,349 |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,206 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,368 | — |
| California | 10 | #1,655 | #2,186 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 248 | #948 |
| 2024 | — | — | 258 | #908 |
| 2023 | — | — | 244 | #931 |
| 2022 | — | — | 234 | #969 |
| 2021 | — | — | 188 | #1,106 |
| 2020 | — | — | 222 | #970 |
| 2019 | — | — | 197 | #1,045 |
| 2018 | — | — | 190 | #1,065 |
| 2017 | — | — | 175 | #1,108 |
| 2016 | — | — | 156 | #1,215 |
| 2015 | — | — | 152 | #1,212 |
| 2014 | — | — | 148 | #1,233 |
| 2013 | — | — | 111 | #1,480 |
| 2012 | — | — | 126 | #1,354 |
| 2011 | — | — | 119 | #1,402 |
| 2010 | — | — | 118 | #1,412 |
| 2009 | — | — | 94 | #1,681 |
| 2008 | — | — | 109 | #1,501 |
| 2007 | — | — | 114 | #1,429 |
| 2006 | — | — | 77 | #1,804 |
| 2005 | — | — | 88 | #1,581 |
| 2004 | — | — | 79 | #1,648 |
| 2003 | — | — | 59 | #1,976 |
| 2002 | — | — | 60 | #1,883 |
| 2001 | — | — | 50 | #2,106 |
| 2000 | — | — | 45 | #2,213 |
| 1999 | — | — | 45 | #2,127 |
| 1998 | — | — | 54 | #1,842 |
| 1997 | — | — | 59 | #1,687 |
| 1996 | — | — | 52 | #1,778 |
| 1995 | — | — | 40 | #2,079 |
| 1994 | — | — | 44 | #1,915 |
| 1993 | — | — | 37 | #2,151 |
| 1992 | — | — | 42 | #1,947 |
| 1991 | — | — | 54 | #1,583 |
| 1990 | — | — | 28 | #2,470 |
| 1989 | — | — | 42 | #1,818 |
| 1988 | — | — | 41 | #1,727 |
| 1987 | — | — | 31 | #2,006 |
| 1986 | — | — | 31 | #1,948 |
| 1985 | — | — | 21 | #2,479 |
| 1984 | — | — | 25 | #2,137 |
| 1983 | — | — | 24 | #2,184 |
| 1982 | — | — | 27 | #2,038 |
| 1981 | — | — | 12 | #3,539 |
| 1980 | — | — | 18 | #2,690 |
| 1979 | — | — | 16 | #2,857 |
| 1978 | — | — | 23 | #2,111 |
| 1977 | — | — | 17 | #2,620 |
| 1976 | — | — | 15 | #2,778 |
| 1975 | — | — | 20 | #2,262 |
| 1974 | — | — | 11 | #3,252 |
| 1973 | — | — | 14 | #2,671 |
| 1972 | — | — | 7 | #4,283 |
| 1971 | — | — | 16 | #2,437 |
| 1970 | — | — | 11 | #3,009 |
| 1969 | — | — | 16 | #2,195 |
| 1967 | — | — | 5 | #4,349 |
| 1966 | — | — | 6 | #3,789 |
| 1965 | — | — | 5 | #4,259 |
| 1964 | — | — | 8 | #3,198 |
| 1962 | — | — | 8 | #3,217 |
| 1959 | — | — | 9 | #2,973 |
| 1958 | — | — | 5 | #4,313 |
| 1957 | — | — | 6 | #3,828 |
| 1951 | — | — | 6 | #3,593 |
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).