Meilech
Meilech was given to 22 boys in 2025, #4,637 among boys’ names; 316 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Meilech by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Meilech?
#4,637 among boys’ names, 2025
Meilech rose from #13,371 in 2015 to #4,637 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 2.6 to 12.9 per million.
26 babies in 2023, the peak
Meilech peaked in 2023, when 26 boys were given it, #4,176 among boys’ names. The 22 births of 2025 are 85% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #4,637 | 12.9 |
| 2024 | 24 | #4,395 | 13.9 |
| 2023 | 26 | #4,176 | 15.2 |
| 2022 | 17 | #5,555 | 9.7 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,418 | 6.3 |
| 2020 | 19 | #4,971 | 11.0 |
| 2019 | 14 | #6,302 | 7.8 |
| 2018 | 18 | #5,238 | 9.9 |
| 2017 | 14 | #6,223 | 7.6 |
| 2016 | 14 | #6,228 | 7.4 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #13,371 | 2.6 |
| 2014 | 14 | #6,195 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 17 | #5,311 | 9.0 |
| 2012 | 10 | #7,933 | 5.3 |
| 2011 | 16 | #5,583 | 8.4 |
| 2010 | 11 | #7,405 | 5.7 |
| 2009 | 11 | #7,540 | 5.5 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,556 | 3.9 |
| 2007 | 12 | #6,932 | 5.8 |
| 2006 | 7 | #10,275 | 3.4 |
| 2005 | 6 | #11,009 | 3.0 |
| 2004 | 5 | #12,568 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 5 | #12,098 | 2.5 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,764 | 5.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Meilech a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Meilech has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Meilech: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Meilech, and how old are they?
An estimated 313 Americans named Meilech and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 15. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 198 people named Meilech (0 women and girls, 198 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 200 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Meilech born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 224 | not ranked | 11.8× |
Where Meilech is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Meilech is most over-represented in New York: since 1995 it was given 11.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Meilech with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Meilech
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Meilech and names like it
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