Melia
#2,514 for girls in 2025, 70 births
- Peak · girls
- 1890 · 8 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,321since 1890
Melia over time
Rank among girls' names. Melia has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,514 | 70 |
| 2024 | #2,462 | 73 |
| 2023 | #1,750 | 117 |
| 2022 | #2,193 | 86 |
| 2021 | #1,926 | 102 |
| 2020 | #1,849 | 105 |
| 2019 | #2,011 | 95 |
| 2018 | #1,953 | 101 |
| 2017 | #1,902 | 106 |
| 2016 | #1,757 | 118 |
| 2015 | #1,667 | 128 |
| 2014 | #1,768 | 117 |
| 2013 | #1,754 | 117 |
| 2012 | #1,583 | 137 |
| 2011 | #1,515 | 146 |
| 2010 | #1,388 | 166 |
| 2009 | #1,383 | 171 |
| 2008 | #1,445 | 163 |
| 2007 | #1,340 | 181 |
| 2006 | #1,212 | 198 |
| 2005 | #1,328 | 165 |
| 2004 | #1,244 | 175 |
| 2003 | #1,297 | 160 |
| 2002 | #1,456 | 131 |
| 2001 | #1,476 | 127 |
| 2000 | #1,481 | 124 |
| 1999 | #1,893 | 83 |
| 1998 | #1,977 | 76 |
| 1997 | #2,481 | 52 |
| 1996 | #1,898 | 76 |
| 1995 | #2,155 | 62 |
| 1994 | #1,905 | 74 |
| 1993 | #2,725 | 44 |
| 1992 | #2,830 | 42 |
| 1991 | #2,163 | 61 |
| 1990 | #2,850 | 40 |
| 1989 | #2,769 | 40 |
| 1988 | #1,891 | 65 |
| 1987 | #2,434 | 42 |
| 1986 | #2,779 | 34 |
| 1985 | #2,545 | 38 |
| 1984 | #2,421 | 39 |
| 1983 | #2,135 | 46 |
| 1982 | #1,991 | 52 |
| 1981 | #2,119 | 48 |
| 1980 | #2,246 | 44 |
| 1979 | #2,147 | 46 |
| 1978 | #2,237 | 41 |
| 1977 | #2,341 | 38 |
| 1976 | #2,486 | 32 |
| 1975 | #2,565 | 30 |
| 1974 | #2,133 | 38 |
| 1973 | #2,309 | 33 |
| 1972 | #2,598 | 27 |
| 1971 | #2,736 | 26 |
| 1970 | #2,450 | 30 |
| 1969 | #2,396 | 29 |
| 1968 | #2,969 | 19 |
| 1967 | #2,781 | 20 |
| 1966 | #2,839 | 19 |
| 1965 | #2,938 | 18 |
| 1964 | #2,530 | 24 |
| 1963 | #2,172 | 30 |
| 1962 | #2,463 | 24 |
| 1961 | #3,060 | 17 |
| 1960 | #2,989 | 17 |
| 1959 | #2,395 | 23 |
| 1958 | #2,167 | 27 |
| 1957 | #1,808 | 36 |
| 1956 | #1,617 | 43 |
| 1955 | #1,579 | 42 |
| 1954 | #3,490 | 11 |
| 1953 | — | |
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| 1951 | — | |
| 1950 | #4,315 | 7 |
| 1949 | — | |
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| 1942 | #4,124 | 6 |
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| 1939 | #4,250 | 5 |
| 1938 | #4,342 | 5 |
| 1937 | — | |
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| 1933 | — | |
| 1932 | #3,568 | 7 |
| 1931 | — | |
| 1930 | #4,550 | 5 |
| 1929 | #4,570 | 5 |
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| 1926 | — | |
| 1925 | #4,973 | 5 |
| 1924 | — | |
| 1923 | #3,125 | 10 |
| 1922 | #2,958 | 11 |
| 1921 | #3,666 | 8 |
| 1920 | — | |
| 1919 | — | |
| 1918 | #4,291 | 6 |
| 1917 | — | |
| 1916 | #3,552 | 7 |
| 1915 | #4,274 | 5 |
| 1914 | #2,876 | 7 |
| 1913 | #2,331 | 8 |
| 1912 | #2,634 | 6 |
| 1911 | #1,956 | 7 |
| 1910 | #2,398 | 5 |
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| 1907 | #1,821 | 6 |
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| 1891 | #1,332 | 5 |
| 1890 | #1,006 | 8 |
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| 1883 | — | |
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| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five girls were named Melia! It came in at #1,006, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1891–1906, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Melia is popular in 2011
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Hawaii#196 · 1 in 560
- New Jersey#1,011 · 1 in 6,160
- California#1,037 · 1 in 6,921
- Georgia#1,059 · 1 in 5,964
- Pennsylvania#1,092 · 1 in 7,544
Best ever in a state: #69 in Hawaii, 2001.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | #196 | 6 | 1 in 560 |
| New Jersey | #1,011 | 6 | 1 in 6,160 |
| California | #1,037 | 30 | 1 in 6,921 |
| Georgia | #1,059 | 8 | 1 in 5,964 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,092 | 7 | 1 in 7,544 |
| Illinois | #1,168 | 8 | 1 in 7,433 |
| Ohio | #1,207 | 6 | 1 in 8,600 |
| New York | #1,274 | 11 | 1 in 8,434 |
| Florida | #1,757 | 6 | 1 in 13,254 |
| Texas | #2,059 | 9 | 1 in 17,321 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Melia
- 52 spots since 2024 (#2,462 → #2,514)
- 665 spots since 2020 (#1,849 → #2,514)
- 847 spots since 2015 (#1,667 → #2,514)
- Debuted 1890
- Peaked 1890 at #1,006 (8 births)
- Births halved by 1892, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 9,602 girls born in 2006 were named Melia (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 22,961 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,006 in 1890, was only 1 in 23,797 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 30.0% of all girls named Melia (1,595) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 13 | #1,006 (1890) | #1,169 |
| 1900s | 6 | #1,821 (1907) | #1,821 |
| 1910s | 51 | #1,956 (1911) | #3,039 |
| 1920s | 39 | #2,958 (1922) | #3,858 |
| 1930s | 22 | #3,568 (1932) | #4,178 |
| 1940s | 6 | #4,124 (1942) | #4,124 |
| 1950s | 189 | #1,579 (1955) | #2,482 |
| 1960s | 217 | #2,172 (1963) | #2,714 |
| 1970s | 341 | #2,133 (1974) | #2,400 |
| 1980s | 448 | #1,891 (1988) | #2,333 |
| 1990s | 610 | #1,893 (1999) | #2,288 |
| 2000s | 1,595 | #1,212 (2006) | #1,366 |
| 2010s | 1,231 | #1,388 (2010) | #1,730 |
| 2020s | 553 | #1,750 (2023) | #2,116 |
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.
Melia in 2011
Top girls' names in 2011
More about 2011
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1,759,066 girls got a published name in 2011; 1 in 12,048 of them was named Melia, which outranked 92.3% of the 19,590 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,509Austyn147
- #1,509Nelly147
- #1,509Wynter147
- #1,515Melia146
- #1,515Brandy146
- #1,515Litzy146
- #1,515Robin146
- #1,521Adalee145
- #1,521Avalynn145
- #1,521Meagan145
Tied with 5 names at #1,515; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.