Meira is a female first name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Meira is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 4 out of 100,000 girls have been named Meira. In the SmartGenius ranking, Meira is #2,536 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Meira.
In fact, the name Meira did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Meira seemed to be more popular than ever in 2020. Although the name never ranked higher than #1,990, 81 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Meira, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Meira was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Meira a few times. Among all newborn girls it ranked #2,426 - with a total of 63 baby girls. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving girls with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Meira are about the same as meeting someone with blue eyes in the entire country – both odds are about 25 to 30 %. More precisely, the first name Meira is registered in 10 states, among which are California, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan or New Jersey. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Meira live in New York, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 38,619 would turn around if you called the name Meira across New York.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 8.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A and S are more common for girls' names.
With five letters, the name Meira is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all girls' names start with an M, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the girls’ names starting with M is Mary.
If your name is Meira and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Meira, you can simply say:
Mouse
Elephant
Igloo
Rocket
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Meira
Meira
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
M
E
I
R
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
M
E
I
R
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Meira sounds like this:
