Given name & surname
Meda
“a prophetess”
Meda is used as a given name and a surname. One Native American interpretation is “a prophetess.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Native American interpretation is “a prophetess.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Native American.
How it developed
Probably from Latin mēta (“turning point; boundary limit”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1880. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Meda through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,882
- 0 boys · 1,882 girls
- Most popular year
- 1915
- 55 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2018. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 55 in 1915. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 611 as a first name in 2020; 1,190 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Meda’s family of names
Meda may belong to the same name family as MEDDA. This is a tentative spelling connection.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Meda
- Meda of OdessosThracian princess and Macedonian queen (died 336 BC)
- Meda ValentováCzech actress and translator1898–1973
- Meda VariakojytėLithuanian figure skaterborn 2007
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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