Meir

Where Meir comes from

Meir 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.

Along the way
  1. 1925
    Meir Shamgar born
    Israeli judge and former attorney general of Israel
  2. 1948
    Meir Shalev born
    Israeli writer
  3. 1951
    First appearance
    #3,364 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 2024
    Peak, #907
    258 babies named Meir — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Meir Shalev · Israeli writer, 1948–2023
  • Meir Shamgar · Israeli judge and former attorney general of Israel, 1925–2019
  • Meir Grossmann · Israeli journalist, 1888–1964

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.