Melik

Peak · boys
1997 · 33 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
495
since 1976

Melik over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Melik has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank18801900192019401960198020002020peak #2,449, 1997boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#10,6956
2024#7,25711
2023#6,22014
2022#7,76810
2021#7,08911
2020#8,0679
2019#8,2159
2018#12,1565
2017#7,54610
2016#7,15711
2015#10,6446
2014#10,7176
2013#8,7898
2012#6,62612
2011#8,0799
2010#6,03614
2009#4,74820
2008#5,24917
2007#6,26213
2006#9,5857
2005#3,44728
2004#3,21730
2003#5,27114
2002#6,52210
2001#3,61723
2000#3,92220
1999#3,70420
1998#4,19716
1997#2,44933
1996#2,48331
1995#2,92324
1994#4,80312
1993#7,6386
1992#5,23610
1991#8,2365
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First appearance
1976

The first year at least five boys were named Melik! It came in at #5,587, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1976–1991, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Melik is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more boys named Melik in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Melik
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 3,438 spots since 2024 (#7,257 → #10,695)
  • 2,628 spots since 2020 (#8,067 → #10,695)
  • 51 spots since 2015 (#10,644 → #10,695)
Rise & fade · boys
21 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1976
  • Peaked 1997 at #2,449 (33 births)
  • Births halved by 1998, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 57,125
  • Highest: 1 in 57,125 boys born in 1997 were named Melik (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 284,679 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 36.8% of all boys named Melik (182) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s5#5,587 (1976)#5,587
1980s0——
1990s157#2,449 (1997)#4,630
2000s182#3,217 (2004)#5,184
2010s90#6,036 (2010)#8,597
2020s61#6,220 (2023)#7,849

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

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