Meda

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 5 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
5
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Meda by the numbers

Meda was given to 5 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 55 babies in 1915, so it is a 1910s name that has since fallen a long way.

What we can tell you about Meda

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 Meda. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Melagathering, fair, or assembly10 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Medhawisdom, intelligence, mental power28 in the US (2017)
  • Mesatable; a geographical term26 in the US (2017)
  • Meraocean or beloved23 in the US (2017)
  • Metabeyond; a short form of margaret
  • Mea7 in England and Wales (2025)

Sounds like Meda

Names that are said the same way as Meda, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

  • Medeearuling; middle; a form of Medea24 in England and Wales (2025)

Names about as common as Meda

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