Meaning not yet researched.
Meya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,840 in 2006.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,840 in 2006; #11,581 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Meya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,581 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2006, at #2,840.
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Meya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,840 in 2006 · most girls in one year: 62 (2006).
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Meya, making it the 11,581st most common girls’ name of the year, up 220 places from #11,801 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 8 girls named Meya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,840, reached in 2006. That year also had the most girls given the name: 62. For comparison, it was #5,251 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Meya in 35 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1979 with 5 babies. In all, 833 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 409 babies named Meya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 137 US girls were named Meya; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 27. In 2025 that was about 1 in 200,908 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Mia (310,610 babies since 1880), Mya (62,363 babies since 1880), Myah (10,255 babies since 1880) and Miya (8,071 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 Meya 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 | 8 | #11,581 | — | — |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,801 | — | — |
| 2023 | 7 | #13,019 | — | — |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,133 | — | — |
| 2021 | 10 | #10,073 | — | — |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,455 | — | — |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,229 | — | — |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,702 | — | — |
| 2017 | 21 | #5,966 | — | — |
| 2016 | 27 | #5,090 | — | — |
| 2015 | 26 | #5,251 | — | — |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,859 | — | — |
| 2013 | 39 | #3,892 | — | — |
| 2012 | 53 | #3,157 | — | — |
| 2011 | 38 | #3,983 | — | — |
| 2010 | 34 | #4,371 | — | — |
| 2009 | 39 | #3,994 | — | — |
| 2008 | 53 | #3,201 | — | — |
| 2007 | 57 | #3,082 | — | — |
| 2006 | 62 | #2,840 | — | — |
| 2005 | 51 | #3,113 | — | — |
| 2004 | 43 | #3,477 | — | — |
| 2003 | 35 | #3,930 | — | — |
| 2002 | 37 | #3,638 | — | — |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,497 | — | — |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,965 | — | — |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,258 | — | — |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,050 | — | — |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,143 | — | — |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,902 | — | — |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,951 | — | — |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,348 | — | — |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,903 | — | — |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,886 | — | — |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,292 | — | — |
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).