Melek — #2943 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Melek

The Social Security Administration has registered 542 babies named Melek between 1987 and 2024, spanning 38 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Melek currently holds the #2943 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 98 babies received it in a single year. Melek is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 67 additional births since 1995.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Melek performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 323 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Melek shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 65 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Melek in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Melek 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 542 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.