Meara
Girl · MEER-a · Irish
Meara is a girls' name of Irish origin, meaning “mirth, merriment”. In 2025 it ranked 4,935th for girls in the UK (4 babies) and 3,067th for girls in the US (53 babies).
What does Meara mean?
Irish: from the surname O'Meara (O Meadhra)
“mirth, merriment”
From the Irish surname O'Meara, based on meadhair, 'mirth'.
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Is Meara a girl's or a boy's name?
Meara is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 girls in the UK and 53 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Meara in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #4,935among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 4about 1 in 70,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 27% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 4 girls in the UK were named Meara, making it the 4,935th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,734th. Its busiest year was 2005, with 4 girls.
In 2025, 162 girls in the UK were given Meara or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #317, up from #4,935 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 334th in Northern Ireland.
Meara in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | #4,935 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 4 | #4,915 |
| 2022 | 1 | #7,487 |
| 2021 | 1 | #7,491 |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 4 | #4,904 |
| 2018 | 4 | #4,914 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 3 | #5,801 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 1 | #7,017 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 4 | #4,150 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 1 | #5,540 |
How popular is Meara in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #3,067among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 53about 1 in 30,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 27% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 53 girls in the US were named Meara, making it the 3,067th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,914th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 72 girls. It first appears in the records in 1973.
2025 had more girls named Meara than any year since 2018.
Half of all the girls named Meara in the US since 1880 were born between 2001 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,101 girls in the US were given Meara or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #302, up from #3,067 for this spelling alone.
Meara in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 53 | #3,067 |
| 2024 | 34 | #4,206 |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,386 |
| 2022 | 39 | #3,825 |
| 2021 | 34 | #4,163 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,914 |
| 2019 | 50 | #3,171 |
| 2018 | 64 | #2,676 |
| 2017 | 59 | #2,835 |
| 2016 | 52 | #3,139 |
| 2015 | 72 | #2,501 |
| 2014 | 66 | #2,646 |
| 2013 | 62 | #2,768 |
| 2012 | 53 | #3,133 |
| 2011 | 35 | #4,150 |
| 2010 | 27 | #5,106 |
| 2009 | 29 | #4,930 |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,005 |
| 2007 | 47 | #3,481 |
| 2006 | 45 | #3,504 |
| 2005 | 50 | #3,122 |
| 2004 | 41 | #3,562 |
| 2003 | 31 | #4,216 |
| 2002 | 33 | #3,885 |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,559 |
| 2000 | 35 | #3,659 |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,713 |
| 1998 | 29 | #3,911 |
| 1997 | 28 | #3,894 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,526 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,252 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,666 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,615 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,307 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,423 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,297 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,525 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,661 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,348 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,745 |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,633 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,396 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,310 |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,024 |
| 1981 | 11 | #5,884 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,417 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,208 |
| 1978 | 0 | – |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,565 |
| 1976 | 0 | – |
| 1975 | 0 | – |
| 1974 | 0 | – |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,433 |
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