Meelah — #5906 US girls' name
387 babies named Meelah in U.S. Social Security records since 2006, with the highest year being 2019. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 67% of names given to girls today.
61% of everyone ever named Meelah was born in this single decade.
34 babies were named Meelah in 2019 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Meelah
The Social Security Administration has registered 387 babies named Meelah between 2006 and 2024, spanning 19 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Meelah currently holds the #5906 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 34 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Meelah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 238 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Meelah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California. In total, SSA state-level files list Meelah in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Meelah in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 387 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Meelah at a glance
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Current rank
Active since
Meelah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–2006
- Peak year (2019)
- 34
- Annual births at peak — across 19 years of records
Currently ranks #5906 among girls.
387 total births across 19 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2019 with 34 births in a single year.
Meelah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 238 births that decade — 61% of Meelah's all-time total
Meelah decade highlights
- Peak decade 238 births
- Runner-up 126 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Meelah's strongest decade
238 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 61% of all-time use.
Meelah by state
Where Meelah concentrates geographically — total births since 2006
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 10 | 2.6% |
| #2 | California | | 5 | 1.3% |
10 of 387 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 2 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Texas 2.6% of nationwide
- California 1.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 2.6% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 2006–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.