Meika
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/mɛɪkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Meika is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 558K(measured from records)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 173K
- JMJamaica≈1 in 182K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 150 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 173K (inferred from the name graph)
596 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Meika counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 596 | 1 in 558K | 591 | Meika | 150 |
| AU Australia | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 173K | 3 | Meika | 69 |
| GH Ghana | ≈88 est. | ≈1 in 332K | — | Meika | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Meika | 37 |
| CA Canada | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 695K | 1 | Meika | 38 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 317K | — | Meika | 22 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 182K | — | Meika | 5 |
| GY Guyana | 3 | 1 in 250K | 3 | — | 1 |
596 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Meika is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Meitene
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Meika Serib. 1954JPJapanese actress
- Meika Sekiyab. 1984JPJapanese announcer
- Meika Minamib. 1997JPJapanese model
- Meika Nishidab. 1997JPJapanese association football player
- Meika DresenkampDEGerman director of photography
- Meika FosterNZNew Zealand nutrition scientist and lawyer
- Meika McDonaldCanadian athlete (born 1974)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 591 | #18,161 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2011 | 28 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2010 | 28 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2015 | 27 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1974 | 27 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2013 | 25 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2009 | 25 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2012 | 23 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 21 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2005 | 19 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2008 | 18 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2006 | 17 | — |
Reference works 2
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Meika?
- A machine transcription gives /mɛɪkə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Meika a male or female name?
- Meika is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Meika have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 596 people named Meika, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled meika.
- How common is the name Meika?
- In the United States, the national register counted 596 people named Meika in 2020, about 1 in 558 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Meika?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/meikaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Meika”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.