Melia
Melia was given to 70 girls in 2025, #2,527 among girls’ names; 5,321 Americans have been recorded with it since 1890 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,050 Americans named Melia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 13 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Melia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Melia mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Melia is “a diminutive of the female given name Amelia.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Melia?
#2,527 among girls’ names, 2025
Melia fell from #1,673 in 2015 to #2,527 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 71.7 to 43.6 per million.
198 babies in 2006, the peak
Melia peaked in 2006, when 198 girls were given it, #1,220 among girls’ names. The 70 births of 2025 are 35% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 70 | #2,527 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 73 | #2,480 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 117 | #1,757 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 86 | #2,202 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 102 | #1,939 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 105 | #1,855 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 95 | #2,027 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 101 | #1,962 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 106 | #1,914 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 118 | #1,769 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (94)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 128 | #1,673 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 117 | #1,772 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 117 | #1,758 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 137 | #1,588 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 146 | #1,517 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 166 | #1,391 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 171 | #1,390 | 0.09 |
| 2008 | 163 | #1,451 | 0.09 |
| 2007 | 181 | #1,349 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 198 | #1,220 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 165 | #1,332 | 0.09 |
| 2004 | 175 | #1,245 | 0.10 |
| 2003 | 160 | #1,301 | 0.09 |
| 2002 | 131 | #1,460 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 127 | #1,485 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 124 | #1,484 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 83 | #1,908 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 76 | #1,983 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 52 | #2,496 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 76 | #1,905 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 62 | #2,169 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 74 | #1,918 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 44 | #2,749 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 42 | #2,851 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 61 | #2,167 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 40 | #2,874 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 40 | #2,790 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 65 | #1,899 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 42 | #2,468 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 34 | #2,817 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 38 | #2,575 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 39 | #2,448 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 46 | #2,145 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 52 | #2,007 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 48 | #2,146 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 44 | #2,271 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 46 | #2,173 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 41 | #2,263 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 38 | #2,362 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 32 | #2,524 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 30 | #2,593 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 38 | #2,161 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 33 | #2,333 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 27 | #2,646 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 26 | #2,780 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 30 | #2,491 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 29 | #2,434 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 19 | #3,025 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 20 | #2,836 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 19 | #2,906 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 18 | #3,007 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 24 | #2,575 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 30 | #2,195 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 24 | #2,506 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 17 | #3,145 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 17 | #3,066 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 23 | #2,440 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 27 | #2,194 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 36 | #1,828 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 43 | #1,625 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 42 | #1,588 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,628 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,594 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,472 | under 0.01 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,708 | under 0.01 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,768 | under 0.01 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,799 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 5 | #5,020 | under 0.01 |
| 1929 | 5 | #5,055 | under 0.01 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,516 | under 0.01 |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,280 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 11 | #3,090 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,902 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,639 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,798 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,745 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 7 | #3,074 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,471 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,853 | 0.01 |
| 1911 | 7 | #2,111 | 0.02 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,662 | 0.01 |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,982 | 0.02 |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,465 | 0.03 |
| 1890 | 8 | #1,066 | 0.04 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Melia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Melia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 94 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Melia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Melia, and how old are they?
5,050 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 5,321 Americans ever recorded as Melia. The median Melia alive today is 21 years old; half are between 13 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 4,704 people named Melia (4,696 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,574 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 8 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 248 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 458 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 781 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,230 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,330 |
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).
Where are babies named Melia born?
The states with the most babies named Melia are California, New York and Florida, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 10 | #2,039 | 1.2× |
| New York | 6 | #1,987 | 0.4× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,381 | 0.6× |
Where Melia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Melia is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1910 it was given 5.9 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 girls’ 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 Melia with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 13,475 babies since 1880, Melia is the most given (39% of them). In 2025 it was given to 70 of their 210 babies (33%), again the most given.
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 Melia
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 Melia and names like it
- Compare Melia and MellieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMelia peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Melia since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Melia.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Melia alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.