Mea

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Mea: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Mea: Recorded since 1999, it reached #312 in 2015, and it stood at #4,192 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
29times a registrar ranked it
26years from first to last
#312highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1999–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1999	#3225
2000	#3247
2001	#1359
2002	#1317
2003	#893
2004	#1209
2005	#1121
2006	#1119
2007	#1443
2008	#1641
2009	#1248
2010	#2589
2011	#1545
2012	#2338
2013	#2062
2014	#3160
2015	#2945
2016	#2966
2017	#4063
2018	#5666
2019	#4001
2020	#5493
2024	#4192

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 23 of the 26 years from 1999 to 2024.

In 2015: #312 among girls in Northern Ireland, #2945 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1999–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1999
First recorded at #3225 among girls in England and Wales in 1999 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2012–2023
Highest recorded position: #312 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2015 (recorded 2012–2023).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #4192 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Mea appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 23 years beginning in 1999, and has registered 284 births with the name.

Mea across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Mea's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3225 (1999)	#893 (2003)	#4192 (2024)	23 of 26	284 (1999–2024)	28 (2003)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#330 (2012)	#312 (2015)	#391 (2023)	5 of 12	21 (2012–2023)	5 (2012)

Mea by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Mea in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	4	1 of 10	4
2000sbusiest	184	10 of 10	18
2010s	88	10 of 10	9
2020s	8	2 of 10	4

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 18 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Mea appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1999 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #312 in Northern Ireland in 2015.

Mea's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#4192	5	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#5493	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#4001	5	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#5666	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#4063	5	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2966	8	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2945	8	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#3160	7	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2062	13	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2338	11	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1545	19	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2589	9	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1248	24	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1641	16	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1443	18	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1119	24	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1121	22	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1209	19	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#893	28	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1317	15	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1359	14	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3247	4	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3225	4	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#391	3	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#446	3	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	female	#312	5	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	female	#327	5	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	female	#330	5	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#677	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1999 and 2024, ranked in 25 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #312, first reached in 2015.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 28 births, registered in England and Wales in 2003.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2004, and 13 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Meadbh · #202, 20y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Lucian · #312, 30y
Moses · #312, 29y
Raja · #312, 29y
Auguste · #311, 20y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Aled · #312, 29y
Ellena · #312, 29y
Emmanuella · #312, 29y
Lucian · #312, 30y

Mea was ranked #312 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2015. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Mea and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Mea without appearing here.

Mea moved ahead of

Finn Compare
In 2000 they stood at #3247 and #2416 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1359 and #3998.
Lene Compare
In 2000 they stood at #3247 and #1831 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1359 and #3998.
Cheryl Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5493 and #5493 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #4192 and #5891.
Debra Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5493 and #5493 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #4192 and #5891.

Moved ahead of Mea

Francis Compare
In 2019 they stood at #4001 and #4686 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #5493 and #2449.
Ellinor Compare
In 2019 they stood at #4001 and #4686 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #5493 and #2843.
Linnea Compare
In 2017 they stood at #4063 and #4763 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #5666 and #3178.
Cecilie Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2062 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #5493 and #3117.

Moved the opposite way to Mea

Harper Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Mea went from #1359 to #4192 while Harper went from #3262 to #22.
Eabha Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Mea went from #1209 to #4192 while Eabha went from #4598 to #1262.
Ezra Compare
Between 2008 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Mea went from #1641 to #4192 while Ezra went from #3397 to #1302.
Martine Compare
Between 1999 and 2011 in England and Wales · Girls, Mea went from #3225 to #1545 while Martine went from #752 to #4764.

Moved the same way as Mea

Teddy Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Mea went from #1317 to #4192 and Teddy from #4137 to #5891.
Josefine Compare
Between 1999 and 2020 in England and Wales · Girls, Mea went from #3225 to #5493 and Josefine from #3225 to #5493.
Karin Compare
Between 1999 and 2020 in England and Wales · Girls, Mea went from #3225 to #5493 and Karin from #1557 to #4535.
Kristin Compare
Between 1999 and 2020 in England and Wales · Girls, Mea went from #3225 to #5493 and Kristin from #1805 to #5493.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1999 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #312 in Northern Ireland in 2015. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Mea

Mea at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Mea across 2 official records

Mea by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Mea appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Mea at a glance

Mea across 2 official records

Mea by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Mea appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Mea

Mea and the names beside it

Mea moved ahead of

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