Meah

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Meah: Recorded since 1999, it reached #330 in 2012, and it was last ranked in 2019.

2registrars recorded it
22times a registrar ranked it
21years from first to last
#330highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1999–2019

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1999	#2189
2001	#2783
2002	#3409
2003	#1996
2004	#1952
2005	#1796
2006	#1660
2007	#2410
2008	#2721
2009	#1909
2010	#4688
2011	#2636
2012	#4838
2013	#3160
2014	#3160
2015	#4103
2019	#4001

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 17 of the 21 years from 1999 to 2019.

In 2015: #358 among girls in Northern Ireland, #4103 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1999–2019 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1999
First recorded at #2189 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 recorded2012–2017
Highest recorded position: #330 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2012 (recorded 2012–2017).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2019
Most recently recorded at #4001 among girls in England and Wales, in 2019.
England and Wales · Girls

Meah appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 17 years beginning in 1999, and has registered 132 births with the name.

Meah 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.

Meah'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	#2189 (1999)	#1660 (2006)	#4001 (2019)	17 of 21	132 (1999–2019)	14 (2006)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#330 (2012)	#330 (2012)	#355 (2017)	5 of 6	19 (2012–2017)	5 (2012)

Meah 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 Meah in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	7	1 of 10	7
2000sbusiest	84	9 of 10	9
2010s	41	7 of 10	6

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade — the 9 years of it this list covers, averaging 9 births a year.

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

Meah 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 2 regions, from 1999 to 2019. Highest recorded position: #330 in Northern Ireland in 2012.

Meah'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
2019	England and Wales	female	#4001	5	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4103	5	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#3160	7	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#3160	7	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#4838	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2636	9	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#4688	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1909	13	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2721	8	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2410	9	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1660	14	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1796	12	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1952	10	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1996	9	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#3409	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2783	5	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2189	7	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#355	4	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#440	3	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	female	#358	4	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	female	#439	3	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	female	#330	5	High	Verified

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

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1999 and 2019, ranked in 19 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #330, first reached in 2012.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 14 births, registered in England and Wales in 2006.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2012, 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.

Meagan · #295, 33y
Meaghan · #227, 25y
Meara · #328, 8y
Meave · #300, 17y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 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.

Agastya · #329, 19y
Bernardo · #329, 21y
Gretta · #331, 19y
Ignacy · #329, 19y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Aaran · #330, 30y
Cade · #330, 30y
Caine · #330, 29y
Cayla · #330, 24y

Meah was ranked #330 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2012. 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.

Meah 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 Meah without appearing here.

Meah moved ahead of

Kari Compare
In 2012 they stood at #4838 and #4838 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #3160 and #5742.
Tracey Compare
In 2012 they stood at #4838 and #4838 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #3160 and #5742.
Finley Compare
In 2014 they stood at #3160 and #2862 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #4103 and #5730.
Carol Compare
In 2018 they stood at #4103 and #4103 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #4001 and #5591.

Moved ahead of Meah

Blake Compare
In 2011 they stood at #2636 and #2893 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #4838 and #1893.
Amalie Compare
In 2001 they stood at #2783 and #3998 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #3409 and #938.
Selma Compare
In 2009 they stood at #1909 and #2759 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #4688 and #2392.
Eabha Compare
In 2014 they stood at #3160 and #3514 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #4103 and #2070.

Moved the opposite way to Meah

Ada Compare
Between 1999 and 2019 in England and Wales · Girls, Meah went from #2189 to #4001 while Ada went from #2189 to #47.
Alma Compare
Between 1999 and 2019 in England and Wales · Girls, Meah went from #2189 to #4001 while Alma went from #3225 to #345.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1999 and 2019 in England and Wales · Girls, Meah went from #2189 to #4001 while Alyssa went from #483 to #255.
Amalie Compare
Between 1999 and 2019 in England and Wales · Girls, Meah went from #2189 to #4001 while Amalie went from #2770 to #996.

Moved the same way as Meah

Abigail Compare
Between 1999 and 2019 in England and Wales · Girls, Meah went from #2189 to #4001 and Abigail from #20 to #83.
Aimee Compare
Between 1999 and 2019 in England and Wales · Girls, Meah went from #2189 to #4001 and Aimee from #70 to #838.
Aisling Compare
Between 1999 and 2019 in England and Wales · Girls, Meah went from #2189 to #4001 and Aisling from #410 to #1634.
Alex Compare
Between 1999 and 2019 in England and Wales · Girls, Meah went from #2189 to #4001 and Alex from #204 to #1389.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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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 2 regions, from 1999 to 2019. Highest recorded position: #330 in Northern Ireland in 2012. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Meah

Meah at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Meah across 2 official records

Meah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Meah appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Meah at a glance

Meah across 2 official records

Meah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Meah 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 Meah

Meah and the names beside it

Meah moved ahead of

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