Meda

Where Meda comes from

Meda hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #375 among girls with 19 babies — the first year on record, and still its best.
  2. 1881
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #623.
  3. 1898
    Meda Valentová born
    Czech actress and translator
  4. 2007
    Meda Variakojytė born
    Lithuanian figure skater
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Meda of Odessos · Thracian princess and Macedonian queen, died 336 BC
  • Meda Valentová · Czech actress and translator, 1898–1973
  • Meda Variakojytė · Lithuanian figure skater, born 2007

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.