Meztli
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- MEST-lee
- US rank, 2025
- #10,913 for girls
Meztli is a girls' name, meaning “moon”. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).
What does Meztli mean?
Nahuatl (Mexico)
“moon”
Metztli is the moon deity of Aztec mythology; the name is used by Mexican families.
Is Meztli a girl's or a boy's name?
Meztli is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Meztli in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,913th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 200,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the US were named Meztli, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,919th. Its busiest year was 2013, with 21 girls. It first appears in the records in 1995.
2025 had fewer girls named Meztli than any year since 2019.
Half of all the girls named Meztli in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
Meztli in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,913 |
| 2024 | 16 | #6,928 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,611 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,459 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,625 |
| 2020 | 16 | #6,919 |
| 2019 | 6 | #13,793 |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,801 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,337 |
| 2016 | 12 | #8,872 |
| 2015 | 18 | #6,719 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,633 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,014 |
| 2012 | 15 | #7,800 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,370 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,227 |
| 2009 | 13 | #8,884 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,594 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,729 |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,711 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,123 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,259 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,420 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,102 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,013 |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,794 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,065 |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,511 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,380 |
Names like Meztli
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Meilani, Malani, Milani, Kailani, Kaylani, Alani, Remi, Miyori, Rumi, Kiyomi, Kalani, Kairi
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Meztli: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/meztli, updated 20 October 2026.