Meta
About 6,211 American babies have been named Meta since 1880, most of them around 1892. It has not appeared in the national data since 2021. About 1,400 Metas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 64.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Meta
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 6,211
- Estimated living today
- 1,400
- Median age today
- 64
- Peak year
- 1892
- Best rank
- 230th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Metas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 6,211 babies given the name since 1880, about 1,400 are alive — 23 in every hundred. Roughly 90 of them are children and 690 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1961 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Metas
- Meta Velander (1924–2025)Swedish actress
- Meta Golding (born 1971)American actress
- Meta Brevoort (1825–1876)American mountain climber
- Meta Hrovat (born 1998)Slovene alpine skier
- Meta von Salis (1855–1929)Swiss feminist, journalist and historian
- Meta Antenen (born 1949)Swiss athletics competitor
People named Meta with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Meta is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Meta is most concentrated in Wisconsin (6.2×), North Carolina (3.4×), South Carolina (2.6×), New York (2.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1892
The most popular girls’ names the year Meta peaked:
Meta elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Meta | 95 | 556th |
| England and Wales girls | Meta | 51 | 2,496th |
| Ireland girls | Meta | 3 | 868th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Meta by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 6 | 427th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Meta among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Meta | 11 | 23 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Meta against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.