Melea
Melea was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,755 among girls’ names; 1,096 Americans have been recorded with it since 1954 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,050 Americans named Melea and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 19 and 48.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Melea by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Melea?
#7,755 among girls’ names, 2025
Melea rose from #11,539 in 2015 to #7,755 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.0 to 8.7 per million.
32 babies in 2006, the peak
Melea peaked in 2006, when 32 girls were given it, #4,540 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 44% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,755 | 8.7 |
| 2024 | 7 | #13,006 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,575 | 11.2 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,906 | 8.5 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,347 | 6.7 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,337 | 6.8 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,441 | 7.7 |
| 2018 | 17 | #7,002 | 10.0 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,718 | 10.4 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,239 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (71)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #11,539 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,941 | 8.4 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,277 | 9.7 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,782 | 10.8 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,990 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,559 | 11.3 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,728 | 10.9 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,317 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 23 | #6,023 | 12.0 |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,540 | 16.8 |
| 2005 | 29 | #4,662 | 15.7 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,687 | 12.0 |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,536 | 12.0 |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,387 | 12.2 |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,305 | 12.2 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,735 | 13.8 |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,100 | 7.9 |
| 1998 | 29 | #3,990 | 16.4 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,788 | 9.8 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,427 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,150 | 10.8 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,156 | 10.6 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,470 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,188 | 10.3 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,369 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,729 | 8.4 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,823 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,985 | 9.5 |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,221 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,648 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,559 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,262 | 10.7 |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,065 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 30 | #2,993 | 17.7 |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,459 | 10.2 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,136 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,353 | 10.6 |
| 1978 | 22 | #3,454 | 14.4 |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,859 | 12.4 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,504 | 9.6 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,282 | 10.3 |
| 1974 | 31 | #2,476 | 21.1 |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,080 | 7.5 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,339 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,389 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,153 | 4.6 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,901 | 8.3 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,924 | 7.9 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,836 | 4.2 |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,117 | 6.5 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,404 | 5.7 |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,260 | 5.8 |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,154 | 4.2 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,441 | 5.1 |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,145 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 6 | #6,008 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,099 | 5.0 |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,101 | 4.9 |
| 1956 | 24 | #2,301 | 12.0 |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,917 | 8.2 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,995 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Melea a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Melea has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 71 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Melea: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Melea, and how old are they?
1,050 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,096 Americans ever recorded as Melea. The median Melea alive today is 31 years old; half are between 19 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 936 people named Melea (933 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 991 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 91 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 207 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 242 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 335 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 175 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 11,834 babies since 1880, Melea is the third most given (9.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 218 babies (6.4%), the sixth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Melea
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 Melea and names like it
- Compare Melea and MeliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMelea peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Melea since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Melea.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Melea alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.