Meya
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 21 babies a year in the US.
Meya by the numbers
In 2025, 3 babies in England and Wales were named Meya. In the US, 21 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 62 babies in 2006, making it a 2000s name.
What we can tell you about Meya
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 Meya. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Mayaillusion; mother; water1,259 in England and Wales (2025)
- Myamine; a modern respelling of Mia or form of Maria1,728 in the US (2017)
- Miyatemple, shrine258 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)
Sounds like Meya
Names that are said the same way as Meya, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
Names about as common as Meya
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