Meaning not yet researched.
Melia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 70 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,066 in 1890.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,066 in 1890; #2,527 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Melia in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,527 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1890, at #1,066.
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Melia: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 70 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,066 in 1890 · most girls in one year: 198 (2006).
In 2025, 70 US girls were named Melia, making it the 2,527th most common girls’ name of the year, down 47 places from #2,480 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 73 girls named Melia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,066, reached in 1890. The most girls given the name in a single year was 198, in 2006. For comparison, it was #1,673 in 2015 and #4,596 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Melia in 94 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1890 with 8 babies. In all, 5,321 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,595 babies named Melia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 973 US girls were named Melia; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 118. In 2025 that was about 1 in 22,961 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Melia ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #1,987 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Amelia (281,414 babies since 1880), Emelia (14,028 babies since 1880) and Mylie (1,982 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Meleah, Meliah and Meliyah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Meleah (1,512), Meliah (765), Meliyah (505), Meili (403), Mylia (394), Myliah (256), Meli (186), Myli (173), Meliya (102), Meyli (102), Meliha (83), Miliah (78), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Melia in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 6 | #1,987 | #1,190 |
| California | 10 | #2,039 | #1,636 |
| Florida | 5 | #2,381 | #1,778 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 70 | #2,527 | — | — |
| 2024 | 73 | #2,480 | — | — |
| 2023 | 117 | #1,757 | — | — |
| 2022 | 86 | #2,202 | — | — |
| 2021 | 102 | #1,939 | — | — |
| 2020 | 105 | #1,855 | — | — |
| 2019 | 95 | #2,027 | — | — |
| 2018 | 101 | #1,962 | — | — |
| 2017 | 106 | #1,914 | — | — |
| 2016 | 118 | #1,769 | — | — |
| 2015 | 128 | #1,673 | — | — |
| 2014 | 117 | #1,772 | — | — |
| 2013 | 117 | #1,758 | — | — |
| 2012 | 137 | #1,588 | — | — |
| 2011 | 146 | #1,517 | — | — |
| 2010 | 166 | #1,391 | — | — |
| 2009 | 171 | #1,390 | — | — |
| 2008 | 163 | #1,451 | — | — |
| 2007 | 181 | #1,349 | — | — |
| 2006 | 198 | #1,220 | — | — |
| 2005 | 165 | #1,332 | — | — |
| 2004 | 175 | #1,246 | — | — |
| 2003 | 160 | #1,302 | — | — |
| 2002 | 131 | #1,461 | — | — |
| 2001 | 127 | #1,486 | — | — |
| 2000 | 124 | #1,486 | — | — |
| 1999 | 83 | #1,911 | — | — |
| 1998 | 76 | #1,986 | — | — |
| 1997 | 52 | #2,499 | — | — |
| 1996 | 76 | #1,907 | — | — |
| 1995 | 62 | #2,174 | — | — |
| 1994 | 74 | #1,923 | — | — |
| 1993 | 44 | #2,754 | — | — |
| 1992 | 42 | #2,856 | — | — |
| 1991 | 61 | #2,173 | — | — |
| 1990 | 40 | #2,879 | — | — |
| 1989 | 40 | #2,796 | — | — |
| 1988 | 65 | #1,903 | — | — |
| 1987 | 42 | #2,470 | — | — |
| 1986 | 34 | #2,818 | — | — |
| 1985 | 38 | #2,576 | — | — |
| 1984 | 39 | #2,449 | — | — |
| 1983 | 46 | #2,146 | — | — |
| 1982 | 52 | #2,007 | — | — |
| 1981 | 48 | #2,146 | — | — |
| 1980 | 44 | #2,271 | — | — |
| 1979 | 46 | #2,173 | — | — |
| 1978 | 41 | #2,263 | — | — |
| 1977 | 38 | #2,362 | — | — |
| 1976 | 32 | #2,525 | — | — |
| 1975 | 30 | #2,593 | — | — |
| 1974 | 38 | #2,161 | — | — |
| 1973 | 33 | #2,333 | — | — |
| 1972 | 27 | #2,646 | — | — |
| 1971 | 26 | #2,780 | — | — |
| 1970 | 30 | #2,491 | — | — |
| 1969 | 29 | #2,434 | — | — |
| 1968 | 19 | #3,025 | — | — |
| 1967 | 20 | #2,836 | — | — |
| 1966 | 19 | #2,907 | — | — |
| 1965 | 18 | #3,008 | — | — |
| 1964 | 24 | #2,576 | — | — |
| 1963 | 30 | #2,196 | — | — |
| 1962 | 24 | #2,507 | — | — |
| 1961 | 17 | #3,146 | — | — |
| 1960 | 17 | #3,067 | — | — |
| 1959 | 23 | #2,441 | — | — |
| 1958 | 27 | #2,195 | — | — |
| 1957 | 36 | #1,829 | — | — |
| 1956 | 43 | #1,626 | — | — |
| 1955 | 42 | #1,589 | — | — |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,629 | — | — |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,596 | — | — |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,474 | — | — |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,710 | — | — |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,770 | — | — |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,801 | — | — |
| 1930 | 5 | #5,022 | — | — |
| 1929 | 5 | #5,057 | — | — |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,518 | — | — |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,281 | — | — |
| 1922 | 11 | #3,092 | — | — |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,904 | — | — |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,641 | — | — |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,800 | — | — |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,747 | — | — |
| 1914 | 7 | #3,075 | — | — |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,473 | — | — |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,855 | — | — |
| 1911 | 7 | #2,111 | — | — |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,662 | — | — |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,983 | — | — |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,465 | — | — |
| 1890 | 8 | #1,066 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).