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Meyah

About 523 American babies have been named Meyah since 1997, most of them around 2013. It has not appeared in the national data since 2023. About 520 Meyahs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 14.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Meyah

By the numbers

Total US births
523
Estimated living today
520
Median age today
14
Peak year
2013
Best rank
3,778th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1997

How old the living Meyahs are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 523 babies given the name since 1997, about 520 are alive — 99 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2011 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Meyah is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Meyah is most concentrated in California (6.5×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2013

The most popular girls’ names the year Meyah peaked:

All the names of 2013

Meyah elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Meyah 7 4,294th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

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Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.