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Meara

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Meara is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 34 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
340.00% of girls
Peak year
201572 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1973
1,383people given the name
Babies named Meara, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

1,383 girls have been named Meara in the United States since 1973, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2015, with 72 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2010, and the 2010s alone account for 39%.

By decade

Decadegirls named Meara
1970s18
1980s110
1990s173
2000s376
2010s540
2020s166

In 2015, its biggest year

Meara was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2015 were Emma, Olivia, Sophia, Ava and Isabella. See all of 2015.

Names that rose and fell with Meara

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.