Meta
Meta is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 217th, in 1884.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1892127 births
- Best rank
- #217in 1884
- Since 1880
- 6,211people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,211 girls have been named Meta in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1892, with 127 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 127 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1916, and the 1890s alone account for 18%. It has spent 48 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Meta | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 650 | |
| 1890s | 1,104 | |
| 1900s | 774 | |
| 1910s | 950 | |
| 1920s | 756 | |
| 1930s | 391 | |
| 1940s | 333 | |
| 1950s | 451 | |
| 1960s | 323 | |
| 1970s | 164 | |
| 1980s | 109 | |
| 1990s | 53 | |
| 2000s | 78 | |
| 2010s | 60 | |
| 2020s | 15 |
In 1892, its biggest year
Meta was the 231st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1892 were Mary, Anna, Elizabeth, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1892.
Names that rose and fell with Meta
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Huldapeak 1895
- Mettiepeak 1918
- Cordiepeak 1919
- Besspeak 1889
- Ettiepeak 1891
- Minnapeak 1916
- Hettiepeak 1916
- Rillapeak 1914
Other spellings in the data
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.