Meda
Meda is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 384th, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191555 births
- Best rank
- #384in 1880
- Since 1880
- 1,882people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,882 girls have been named Meda in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1915, with 55 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 55 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1919, and the 1910s alone account for 18%. It has spent 33 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Meda | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 178 | |
| 1890s | 235 | |
| 1900s | 208 | |
| 1910s | 343 | |
| 1920s | 320 | |
| 1930s | 192 | |
| 1940s | 143 | |
| 1950s | 123 | |
| 1960s | 67 | |
| 1970s | 34 | |
| 1980s | 6 | |
| 2000s | 17 | |
| 2010s | 16 |
In 1915, its biggest year
Meda was the 889th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1915 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1915.
Names that rose and fell with Meda
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Melliepeak 1895
- Berthapeak 1918
- Lurapeak 1917
- Nelliepeak 1918
- Nettiepeak 1918
- Hattiepeak 1918
- Vinapeak 1920
- Linniepeak 1921
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.