Mecca
Mecca is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 47 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 470.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 199589 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1952
- 3,022people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,263 girls have been named Mecca in the United States since 1952, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1995, with 89 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1997, and the 1990s alone account for 28%.
Mecca is used for both sexes: 25% of its bearers are boys (759), most of them born around 2023.
By decade
In 1995, its biggest year
Mecca was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1995 were Jessica, Ashley, Emily, Samantha and Sarah. See all of 1995.
Names that rose and fell with Mecca
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Mirellapeak 1997
- Malikapeak 1996
- Stormypeak 1992
- Iselapeak 1998
- Keliapeak 1993
- Shaepeak 1998
- Joripeak 1995
- Sirenapeak 1995
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.