Meera

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Meera: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #536, and it stood at #1,036 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
31times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#536highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#594
1997	#536
1998	#955
1999	#816
2000	#993
2001	#1025
2002	#1151
2003	#933
2004	#1312
2005	#1082
2006	#1748
2007	#1443
2008	#2292
2009	#1752
2010	#1257
2011	#1545
2012	#1720
2013	#1018
2014	#1005
2015	#1168
2016	#1086
2017	#1105
2018	#886
2019	#1218
2020	#1013
2021	#1224
2022	#940
2023	#921
2024	#1036

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 every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2015: #896 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1168 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #594 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #536 among girls in England and Wales, in 1997 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1036 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Meera appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 781 births with the name.

Meera 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.

Meera'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	#594 (1996)	#536 (1997)	#1036 (2024)	29 of 29	781 (1996–2024)	49 (1997)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#893 (2009)	#893 (2009)	#896 (2015)	2 of 7	6 (2009–2015)	3 (2009)

Meera 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 Meera in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	139	4 of 10	35
2000s	181	10 of 10	18
2010s	293	10 of 10	29
2020sbusiest	168	5 of 10	34

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 34 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1997 and 1998, when recorded births fell by 27, from 49 to 22.

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

Meera 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 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #536 in England and Wales in 1997.

Meera'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	#1036	33	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#921	38	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#940	37	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1224	27	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1013	33	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1218	27	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#886	42	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1105	31	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1086	32	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1168	29	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1005	36	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1018	35	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1720	17	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1545	19	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1257	25	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1752	15	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2292	10	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1443	18	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1748	13	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1082	23	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1312	17	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#933	26	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1151	18	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1025	20	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#993	21	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#816	27	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#955	22	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#536	49	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#594	41	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#893	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
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 2 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #536, first reached in 1997.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 49 births, registered in England and Wales in 1997.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2009, 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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Meg · #269, 29y

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.

Allana · #536, 29y
Orianna · #536, 24y
Suzie · #536, 29y
Talitha · #536, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Allana · #536, 29y
Cayleigh · #536, 15y
Orianna · #536, 24y
Suzie · #536, 29y

Meera was ranked #536 in England and Wales · Girls in 1997. 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.

Meera 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 Meera without appearing here.

Meera moved ahead of

Shauna Compare
In 2012 they stood at #1720 and #1525 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #1018 and #2649.
Donna Compare
In 2008 they stood at #2292 and #1914 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #1752 and #3031.
Aisling Compare
In 2012 they stood at #1720 and #1150 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #1018 and #1864.
Shannon Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1218 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1013 and #1846.

Moved ahead of Meera

Frida Compare
In 2007 they stood at #1443 and #1656 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #2292 and #1247.
Harper Compare
In 2007 they stood at #1443 and #1573 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #2292 and #1391.
Alma Compare
In 2005 they stood at #1082 and #1500 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #1748 and #1087.
Audrey Compare
In 2003 they stood at #933 and #1325 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #1312 and #736.

Moved the opposite way to Meera

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Meera went from #594 to #1036 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Meera went from #594 to #1036 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Meera went from #594 to #1036 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Meera went from #594 to #1036 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Meera

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Meera went from #594 to #1036 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Meera went from #594 to #1036 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Meera went from #594 to #1036 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Meera went from #594 to #1036 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

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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 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #536 in England and Wales in 1997. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Meera

Meera at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Meera across 2 official records

Meera by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Meera appears in

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Meera across 2 official records

Meera by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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