Meka
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 8 babies a year in the US.
Meka by the numbers
Meka was given to 8 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 34 babies in 1972, so it is a 1970s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Meka
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 Meka. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Mikawho is like God; a form of Micah232 in the US (2017)
- Mykawho is like God; a modern spelling of Micah85 in the US (2017)
- Melagathering, fair, or assembly10 in England and Wales (2025)
- Mesatable; a geographical term26 in the US (2017)
- Meraocean or beloved23 in the US (2017)
- Miekawho is like god; a form of michaela7 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Meka
Names that are said the same way as Meka, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
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