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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Meyer

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

#1,693

up +110 places

2025 births

97

up +6 births

All-time births

5,404

2% of them in 2025

More common than

96%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1917
214 births
Best rank
#301
in 1912
First recorded
1881
#578 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1951
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
143 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 1917214#385Peak
  2. 1916210#381
  3. 1915203#377
  4. 1914186#343
  5. 1918183#439

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #301 in 1912 · peak births 214 in 1917

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 96% boys■ 4% girls

5,404 boys · 208 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Meyer has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.