Mea
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — one syllable, given to 7 babies a year in England and Wales.
Mea by the numbers
In 2025, 7 babies in England and Wales were named Mea. In the US, 40 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
It is used at about the same rate on both sides of the Atlantic.
Its American peak was 112 babies in 2005, making it a 2000s name.
What we can tell you about Mea
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Mea. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Miamine; also a form of Maria13,453 in the US (2017)
- Myamine; a modern respelling of Mia or form of Maria1,728 in the US (2017)
- Meahhundredfold or abundance59 in the US (2017)
- Meibeautiful; plum blossom13 in England and Wales (2025)
- Melagathering, fair, or assembly10 in England and Wales (2025)
- Mesatable; a geographical term26 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Mea
Names that are said the same way as Mea, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
- Meeah6 in the US (2017)