Meir
#948 for boys in 2025, 248 births
- Peak · boys
- 2024 · 258 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,612since 1951
Meir over time
Rank among boys' names. Meir has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #948 | 248 |
| 2024 | #907 | 258 |
| 2023 | #930 | 244 |
| 2022 | #967 | 234 |
| 2021 | #1,105 | 188 |
| 2020 | #969 | 222 |
| 2019 | #1,044 | 197 |
| 2018 | #1,064 | 190 |
| 2017 | #1,107 | 175 |
| 2016 | #1,208 | 156 |
| 2015 | #1,210 | 152 |
| 2014 | #1,229 | 148 |
| 2013 | #1,475 | 111 |
| 2012 | #1,346 | 126 |
| 2011 | #1,395 | 119 |
| 2010 | #1,408 | 118 |
| 2009 | #1,665 | 94 |
| 2008 | #1,494 | 109 |
| 2007 | #1,423 | 114 |
| 2006 | #1,790 | 77 |
| 2005 | #1,573 | 88 |
| 2004 | #1,629 | 79 |
| 2003 | #1,962 | 59 |
| 2002 | #1,869 | 60 |
| 2001 | #2,086 | 50 |
| 2000 | #2,196 | 45 |
| 1999 | #2,098 | 45 |
| 1998 | #1,833 | 54 |
| 1997 | #1,672 | 59 |
| 1996 | #1,764 | 52 |
| 1995 | #2,055 | 40 |
| 1994 | #1,894 | 44 |
| 1993 | #2,123 | 37 |
| 1992 | #1,914 | 42 |
| 1991 | #1,573 | 54 |
| 1990 | #2,432 | 28 |
| 1989 | #1,793 | 42 |
| 1988 | #1,706 | 41 |
| 1987 | #1,974 | 31 |
| 1986 | #1,917 | 31 |
| 1985 | #2,427 | 21 |
| 1984 | #2,098 | 25 |
| 1983 | #2,140 | 24 |
| 1982 | #1,999 | 27 |
| 1981 | #3,412 | 12 |
| 1980 | #2,617 | 18 |
| 1979 | #2,777 | 16 |
| 1978 | #2,068 | 23 |
| 1977 | #2,556 | 17 |
| 1976 | #2,709 | 15 |
| 1975 | #2,205 | 20 |
| 1974 | #3,120 | 11 |
| 1973 | #2,606 | 14 |
| 1972 | #3,963 | 7 |
| 1971 | #2,366 | 16 |
| 1970 | #2,891 | 11 |
| 1969 | #2,130 | 16 |
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| 1967 | #3,966 | 5 |
| 1966 | #3,537 | 6 |
| 1965 | #3,930 | 5 |
| 1964 | #3,050 | 8 |
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| 1962 | #3,041 | 8 |
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| 1959 | #2,821 | 9 |
| 1958 | #3,944 | 5 |
| 1957 | #3,552 | 6 |
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| 1951 | #3,364 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Meir! It came in at #3,364, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1952–1956, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Meir is popular in 2022
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#152 · 1 in 646
- New York#167 · 1 in 726
- Maryland#804 · 1 in 4,970
- Illinois#1,283 · 1 in 10,352
- Florida#1,346 · 1 in 11,918
Best ever in a state: #102 in New Jersey, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #152 | 63 | 1 in 646 |
| New York | #167 | 120 | 1 in 726 |
| Maryland | #804 | 5 | 1 in 4,970 |
| Illinois | #1,283 | 5 | 1 in 10,352 |
| Florida | #1,346 | 8 | 1 in 11,918 |
| California | #2,230 | 6 | 1 in 31,522 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Meir
- 41 spots since 2024 (#907 → #948)
- 21 spots since 2020 (#969 → #948)
- 262 spots since 2015 (#1,210 → #948)
- Biggest jump: 138 spots in 2022 (#1,105 → #967)
- Biggest drop: 136 spots in 2021 (#969 → #1,105)
- Debuted 1951
- Peaked 2024 at #907 (258 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 2022–2025
- Highest: 1 in 6,678 boys born in 2024 were named Meir (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 6,887 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 32.4% of all boys named Meir (1,492) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 26 | #2,821 (1959) | #3,420 |
| 1960s | 48 | #2,130 (1969) | #3,276 |
| 1970s | 150 | #2,068 (1978) | #2,726 |
| 1980s | 272 | #1,706 (1988) | #2,208 |
| 1990s | 455 | #1,573 (1991) | #1,936 |
| 2000s | 775 | #1,423 (2007) | #1,769 |
| 2010s | 1,492 | #1,044 (2019) | #1,249 |
| 2020s | 1,394 | #907 (2024) | #971 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Meir in 2022
Top boys' names in 2022
More about 2022
boys
1,746,008 boys got a published name in 2022; 1 in 7,462 of them was named Meir, which outranked 93.3% of the 14,333 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).