Meir

What Meir means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Meir yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Up from #1,210 in 2015 to #948 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Meir?

US: Rising: up from #1210 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #2020 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2024, when 258 boys got the name (#907 that year). First in the US records in 1951.

How common

• About 1 in 6,887 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 14,312 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NJ (2.29 per 1,000 boys), NY (1.3 per 1,000 boys), FL (0.12 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Meir is #948 in the US and #1406 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Meir were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Mir21 US · 39 E&W
• Meer15 US · 35 E&W
• Mar9 US
• Mer0 US · 3 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Meir

Boys

• Matias#170From Biblical Hebrew, meaning “gift of Yahweh”^*
• Waylon#56Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #222 in 2015, #56 in 2025
• Hayes#162“brushwood”^*
• Roman#42Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #102 in 2015, #42 in 2025
• Elias#13Form of Elijah, meaning “Yahweh is my god”^*
• Ace#164Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #419 in 2015, #164 in 2025

For a sister

• Ember#154Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #366 in 2015, #154 in 2025
• Antonella#284Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #1,018 in 2015, #284 in 2025
• Freya#176“mistress, lady”^*
• Aurora#15Italian, from Latin Aurōra, meaning “dawn, sunrise”^*
• Hazel#21From the word “hazel”^*
• Wren#231Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #703 in 2015, #231 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Meir’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.