Gender-neutral · #1688 in 2025

Meyer

Meyer: popularity and trends since 1880

Rank
#1688
Born 2025
97
Peak year
1912

Popularity, 1880–2025

per 100,000 boys born

Meyer per 100,000 boys born, by year. Peak: 1912. Gaps are years with fewer than five births, which SSA does not publish. Source: SSA, 1880–2025.

Recent trend

Meyer has been rising: its share of boys born has grown over the last 10 years. It now stands at 17% of its 1912 peak.

Boy or girl?

Over the last 10 years, 15% of children named Meyer were recorded as girls and 85% as boys. The file records sex, not a name's gender, and the share is measured over ten years rather than all time, so a name that has changed sides shows where it is now.

Sounds good with

Names of the other sex that are about as common right now, so two siblings' names do not sound a generation apart.