Meleah
Meleah was given to 11 girls in 2025, #9,265 among girls’ names; 1,512 Americans have been recorded with it since 1955 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,470 Americans named Meleah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 16 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Meleah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Meleah?
#9,265 among girls’ names, 2025
Meleah fell from #5,073 in 2015 to #9,265 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 15.1 to 6.8 per million.
49 babies in 2007, the peak
Meleah peaked in 2007, when 49 girls were given it, #3,416 among girls’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,265 | 6.8 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,272 | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,909 | 8.7 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,354 | 7.9 |
| 2021 | 10 | #10,060 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,533 | 11.1 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,220 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,565 | 13.5 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,719 | 10.4 |
| 2016 | 27 | #5,088 | 15.2 |
Every recorded year (68)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 27 | #5,073 | 15.1 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,855 | 16.2 |
| 2013 | 28 | #4,976 | 16.0 |
| 2012 | 44 | #3,625 | 25.0 |
| 2011 | 44 | #3,582 | 25.0 |
| 2010 | 37 | #4,082 | 20.8 |
| 2009 | 46 | #3,549 | 25.0 |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,059 | 20.6 |
| 2007 | 49 | #3,416 | 25.5 |
| 2006 | 39 | #3,899 | 20.5 |
| 2005 | 31 | #4,449 | 16.8 |
| 2004 | 43 | #3,472 | 23.4 |
| 2003 | 37 | #3,782 | 20.3 |
| 2002 | 40 | #3,441 | 22.3 |
| 2001 | 42 | #3,289 | 23.3 |
| 2000 | 42 | #3,248 | 23.1 |
| 1999 | 32 | #3,764 | 18.0 |
| 1998 | 39 | #3,199 | 22.1 |
| 1997 | 39 | #3,077 | 22.4 |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,267 | 14.3 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,448 | 13.1 |
| 1994 | 26 | #4,077 | 14.6 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,355 | 9.9 |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,402 | 9.8 |
| 1991 | 21 | #4,744 | 11.2 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,446 | 9.0 |
| 1989 | 25 | #3,971 | 13.6 |
| 1988 | 26 | #3,648 | 14.6 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,611 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 22 | #3,836 | 12.8 |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,798 | 12.8 |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,263 | 10.7 |
| 1983 | 19 | #4,053 | 11.4 |
| 1982 | 24 | #3,493 | 14.2 |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,109 | 11.4 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,657 | 9.6 |
| 1979 | 24 | #3,406 | 15.0 |
| 1978 | 29 | #2,837 | 18.9 |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,707 | 13.0 |
| 1976 | 20 | #3,481 | 13.7 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,283 | 10.3 |
| 1974 | 16 | #3,968 | 10.9 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,139 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,881 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,390 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,670 | 6.9 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,902 | 8.3 |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,550 | 9.1 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,478 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,251 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,136 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 12 | #4,026 | 6.3 |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,441 | 5.2 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,216 | 2.5 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,892 | 4.0 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,607 | 5.9 |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,624 | 6.0 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,276 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Meleah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Meleah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 68 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Meleah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Meleah, and how old are they?
1,470 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,512 Americans ever recorded as Meleah. The median Meleah alive today is 26 years old; half are between 16 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 1,319 people named Meleah (1,318 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,406 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 | 57 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 206 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 325 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 636 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 245 |
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 11,548 babies since 1880, Meleah is the second most given (13% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 179 babies (6.1%), the seventh 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 Meleah
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 Meleah and names like it
- Compare Meleah and MeliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMeleah peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Meleah since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Meleah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Meleah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.