Meadow
#286 for girls in 2025, 1,078 births · Last seen for boys in 2023 at #10,821
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 1,078 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 12,343since 1914
Meadow over time
Rank among girls' names. Meadow has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #286 | 1,078 | — | |
| 2024 | #325 | 953 | — | |
| 2023 | #350 | 870 | #10,821 | 6 |
| 2022 | #405 | 776 | #10,863 | 6 |
| 2021 | #499 | 624 | — | |
| 2020 | #476 | 646 | — | |
| 2019 | #497 | 630 | — | |
| 2018 | #512 | 608 | — | |
| 2017 | #725 | 394 | — | |
| 2016 | #687 | 426 | — | |
| 2015 | #673 | 424 | — | |
| 2014 | #750 | 374 | — | |
| 2013 | #979 | 257 | — | |
| 2012 | #951 | 267 | — | |
| 2011 | #887 | 294 | — | |
| 2010 | #873 | 304 | — | |
| 2009 | #867 | 321 | — | |
| 2008 | #855 | 325 | — | |
| 2007 | #765 | 381 | — | |
| 2006 | #797 | 342 | — | |
| 2005 | #856 | 295 | — | |
| 2004 | #767 | 339 | — | |
| 2003 | #761 | 326 | — | |
| 2002 | #856 | 269 | — | |
| 2001 | #804 | 293 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,387 | 134 | — | |
| 1999 | #3,313 | 38 | — | |
| 1998 | #5,799 | 17 | — | |
| 1997 | #6,163 | 15 | — | |
| 1996 | #4,883 | 20 | — | |
| 1995 | #5,677 | 16 | — | |
| 1994 | #7,097 | 12 | — | |
| 1993 | #8,052 | 10 | — | |
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| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | — | |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 | — | |
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| 1986 | #8,523 | 7 | — | |
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| 1984 | #6,291 | 10 | — | |
| 1983 | #9,015 | 6 | — | |
| 1982 | #5,911 | 11 | — | |
| 1981 | #4,005 | 19 | — | |
| 1980 | #3,719 | 21 | — | |
| 1979 | #3,668 | 21 | — | |
| 1978 | #3,777 | 19 | — | |
| 1977 | #3,267 | 23 | — | |
| 1976 | #3,095 | 23 | — | |
| 1975 | #2,811 | 26 | — | |
| 1974 | #4,227 | 14 | — | |
| 1973 | #3,971 | 15 | — | |
| 1972 | #3,894 | 15 | — | |
| 1971 | #6,006 | 8 | — | |
| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 | — | |
| 1969 | #6,617 | 6 | — | |
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| 1914 | #3,188 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Meadow! It came in at #3,188, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1915–1968, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Meadow
- 39 spots since 2024 (#325 → #286)
- 190 spots since 2020 (#476 → #286)
- 387 spots since 2015 (#673 → #286)
- Biggest jump: 583 spots in 2001 (#1,387 → #804)
- Biggest drop: 90 spots in 2008 (#765 → #855)
- Debuted 1914
- Peaked 2025 at #286 (1,078 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 25 yrs · run 2001–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,491 girls born in 2025 were named Meadow (0.07%)
- 40.1% of all girls named Meadow (4,947) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 6 | #3,188 (1914) | #3,188 |
| 1920s | 0 | — | — |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 6 | #6,617 (1969) | #6,617 |
| 1970s | 169 | #2,811 (1975) | #4,271 |
| 1980s | 74 | #3,719 (1980) | #6,244 |
| 1990s | 138 | #3,313 (1999) | #7,454 |
| 2000s | 3,025 | #761 (2003) | #872 |
| 2010s | 3,978 | #497 (2019) | #753 |
| 2020s | 4,947 | #286 (2025) | #390 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Meadow in 2008
Top girls' names in 2008
More about 2008
girls
1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 5,818 of them was named Meadow, which outranked 95.8% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).