Mele
- #7,885 for girls in 2025, 13 births
- Peak · girls
- 1991 · 33 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 927since 1955
Mele over time
Rank among girls' names. Mele has never cracked the top 3,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,885 | 13 |
| 2024 | #8,946 | 11 |
| 2023 | #8,486 | 12 |
| 2022 | #5,984 | 20 |
| 2021 | #6,691 | 17 |
| 2020 | #7,212 | 15 |
| 2019 | #5,986 | 20 |
| 2018 | #7,100 | 16 |
| 2017 | #8,299 | 13 |
| 2016 | #6,186 | 20 |
| 2015 | #5,127 | 26 |
| 2014 | #5,993 | 21 |
| 2013 | #7,372 | 16 |
| 2012 | #12,199 | 8 |
| 2011 | #10,374 | 10 |
| 2010 | #7,217 | 17 |
| 2009 | #6,091 | 22 |
| 2008 | #7,742 | 16 |
| 2007 | #5,377 | 26 |
| 2006 | #8,715 | 13 |
| 2005 | #5,437 | 23 |
| 2004 | #5,969 | 20 |
| 2003 | #6,299 | 18 |
| 2002 | #5,897 | 19 |
| 2001 | #5,174 | 22 |
| 2000 | #6,487 | 16 |
| 1999 | #5,039 | 21 |
| 1998 | #4,366 | 25 |
| 1997 | #5,626 | 17 |
| 1996 | #7,130 | 12 |
| 1995 | #5,221 | 18 |
| 1994 | #3,892 | 27 |
| 1993 | #5,419 | 17 |
| 1992 | #4,849 | 20 |
| 1991 | #3,301 | 33 |
| 1990 | #3,813 | 27 |
| 1989 | #4,121 | 23 |
| 1988 | #4,496 | 19 |
| 1987 | #4,122 | 20 |
| 1986 | #4,964 | 15 |
| 1985 | #3,621 | 23 |
| 1984 | #4,966 | 14 |
| 1983 | #4,286 | 17 |
| 1982 | #4,945 | 14 |
| 1981 | #5,571 | 12 |
| 1980 | #4,743 | 15 |
| 1979 | #5,092 | 13 |
| 1978 | #5,958 | 10 |
| 1977 | #7,567 | 7 |
| 1976 | #6,048 | 9 |
| 1975 | #5,161 | 11 |
| 1974 | #6,258 | 8 |
| 1973 | #6,666 | 7 |
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| 1967 | #6,042 | 6 |
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| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 |
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| 1963 | #5,296 | 7 |
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| 1955 | #5,828 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Mele! It came in at #5,828, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1955–1962, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Mele is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#2,767 · 1 in 26,954
Best ever in a state: #137 in Hawaii, 2007.
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| California | #2,767 | 6 | 1 in 26,954 |
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See more about Mele
- 1,061 spots since 2024 (#8,946 → #7,885)
- 673 spots since 2020 (#7,212 → #7,885)
- 2,758 spots since 2015 (#5,127 → #7,885)
- Debuted 1955
- Peaked 1991 at #3,301 (33 births)
- Births halved by 1996, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 56,818 girls born in 1991 were named Mele (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 123,636 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 23.4% of all girls named Mele (217) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1950s | 5 | #5,828 (1955) | #5,828 |
| 1960s | 18 | #5,296 (1963) | #5,959 |
| 1970s | 65 | #5,092 (1979) | #6,107 |
| 1980s | 172 | #3,621 (1985) | #4,584 |
| 1990s | 217 | #3,301 (1991) | #4,866 |
| 2000s | 195 | #5,174 (2001) | #6,319 |
| 2010s | 167 | #5,127 (2015) | #7,585 |
| 2020s | 88 | #5,984 (2022) | #7,534 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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