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How popular is the name Meda?
Births per year, rank history and how many Medas are alive today.
Meda (female) is a rare spelling of the girls' name Maida in England and Wales, ranked 4844th in 2024 and given to 4 babies. This spelling of the name peaked in 2013, when 12 babies were given the name, the 2176th most popular that year. It has declined since 2013; the 2024 figure is roughly 33% of its peak.
Across all spellings of the name, the Maida you are most likely to meet is around 13 years old. Half of all Maidas born in England and Wales are between 7 and 17, and there are at least 500 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Maida - on average, only one in every 630 such rooms contains a Maida.
How many babies are named Meda each year?
Includes all spellings: Meda, Maida. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Meda spelling rank?
Where does the Maida spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Meda most popular?
The most popular form of the name, Maida, peaked in 2012, when 31 babies in England and Wales were given the name. The Meda spelling itself peaked in 2013, with 12 babies.
How many people are called Meda?
At least 500 people named Meda in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Meda?
Most living Medas are between 7 and 17; the most common age is about 13.
Is Meda becoming more or less popular?
Declining: recent figures are a fraction of the 2012 peak.