Meta
6,211 recorded births · active 1880–2021
Compare Meta →Living-age distribution
The median living Meta is 65. If you meet a Meta, there's about a 70% chance they're between 38 and 81 years old.
Popularity arc
Peak Meta: 1890. Down 99% from peak.
Gender balance
Meta is almost always given to female babies — 100% female.
Rarity
Meta ranks #3,691 out of 105,966 names ever recorded by the SSA.
Geographic fingerprint
Metas are 0.5x more common in the Midwest than the national average.
Predictive modeling
Three statistical models, all fit to Meta's own SSA history plus the historical behavior of every other name in the dataset.
Peak popularity prediction
Meta's modeled peak was #354 in 1890 — its trend isn't projected to beat that.
Not enough continuous recent history to project a peak rank.
Name life-cycle stage
A rule-based classifier over recent growth, momentum, and peak proximity.
Meta peaked in 1890 and now sits at roughly 1% of that peak, 135 years later — a name that was genuinely common once, now mostly heard from an older generation.
Popularity survival model
Once a name reaches a rank tier, how long does it typically stay there before falling out?
Built from a Kaplan-Meier survival curve: every historical run any name has ever had above this tier, with runs still ongoing today counted as still in progress rather than as an exit.Meta isn't currently in the Top 100 tier. Estimated chance of entering it in the forecast window: 0%.
If Meta enters Top 100, chance it's still there after:
Names that do enter Top 100 have historically stayed a median of ~19 years. Based on 668 historical Top 100 runs across every name in the dataset.