Meara

femaleStatistical record

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

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

3registrars recorded it
10times a registrar ranked it
20years from first to last
#328highest recorded position
2groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2005–2019

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2005	#4798
2009	#5556
2018	#5666
2019	#4686

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

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 4 of the 15 years from 2005 to 2019.

In 2023: #328 among girls in Northern Ireland, #856 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 2005–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2005
First recorded at #4798 among girls in England and Wales in 2005 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2020–2023
Highest recorded position: #328 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2023 (recorded 2020–2023).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #898 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2024.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Meara appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 4 years beginning in 2005, and has registered 13 births with the name.

Meara across 3 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.

Meara'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	#4798 (2005)	#4686 (2019)	#4686 (2019)	4 of 15	13 (2005–2019)	4 (2019)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#751 (2015)	#716 (2019)	#898 (2024)	4 of 10	14 (2015–2024)	4 (2015)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#397 (2020)	#328 (2023)	#328 (2023)	2 of 4	7 (2020–2023)	4 (2023)

Meara 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 2005 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #328 in Northern Ireland in 2023.

Meara'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	#4686	4	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#5666	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#5556	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#4798	3	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#328	4	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#397	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#898	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#856	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#716	4	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#751	4	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.

Where Meara is officially recorded

3 official registrars have recorded Meara, between 2005 and 2024, in 8 of those 20 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
England and Wales	2005–2019	4	#4686 in 2019
Republic of Ireland	2015–2024	4	#716 in 2019
Northern Ireland	2020–2023	2	#328 in 2023

No registrar recorded it for 5 years after 2009; it appears again in 2015.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 2005 and 2024, ranked in 8 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #328, first reached in 2023.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 4 births, registered in Republic of Ireland in 2015.

Its record falls into 5 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 5 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2015, and 15 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.

3decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 3 decades →
3 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
5separate stretches the record falls into5 separate stretches →
5 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period4 to 9 years missing →
#898position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
15 yearsyears between the first and last registrar to record itAcross 11 to 20 years →
4births registered in its largest year, 2015Under 25 births →

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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Meah · #330, 19y
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Meda · #539, 19y

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.

Caila · #330, 9y
Lachlann · #330, 9y
Tulisa · #330, 10y
Novah · #333, 12y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Aayan · #328, 22y
Armandas · #328, 19y
Arnas · #328, 21y
Avah · #328, 19y

Meara was ranked #328 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2023. 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.

Alayah#328
Amelia-Rose#328
Aoibhinn#328
Avah#328
Adah#391
Adaline#391
Aila#391
Aimee#391

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 2005 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #328 in Northern Ireland in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Meara

Meara at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Meara across 3 official records

Meara appears in

Popularity data

Where Meara is officially recorded

What the record shows

Where to go next

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A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Names published alongside Meara

Meara at a glance

Meara across 3 official records

Meara appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Names published alongside Meara