Meliah
Meliah was given to 22 girls in 2025, #5,656 among girls’ names; 765 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Meliah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Meliah?
#5,656 among girls’ names, 2025
Meliah fell from #4,678 in 2015 to #5,656 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 16.8 to 13.7 per million.
50 babies in 2009, the peak
Meliah peaked in 2009, when 50 girls were given it, #3,338 among girls’ names. The 22 births of 2025 are 44% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,656 | 13.7 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,842 | 10.5 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,324 | 11.8 |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,258 | 15.2 |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,350 | 14.6 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,239 | 11.8 |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,735 | 17.3 |
| 2018 | 24 | #5,405 | 14.1 |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,968 | 22.0 |
| 2016 | 30 | #4,699 | 16.9 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #4,678 | 16.8 |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,258 | 14.6 |
| 2013 | 28 | #4,977 | 16.0 |
| 2012 | 26 | #5,356 | 14.8 |
| 2011 | 42 | #3,703 | 23.9 |
| 2010 | 31 | #4,697 | 17.4 |
| 2009 | 50 | #3,338 | 27.2 |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,727 | 16.9 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,247 | 11.4 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,278 | 11.0 |
| 2005 | 27 | #4,911 | 14.6 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,413 | 10.3 |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,349 | 12.6 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,604 | 11.7 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,858 | 8.9 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,618 | 11.0 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,245 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,038 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,790 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,598 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,176 | 4.5 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,255 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,518 | 3.2 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,115 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,483 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,730 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,721 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Meliah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Meliah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Meliah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Meliah, and how old are they?
An estimated 758 Americans named Meliah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 596 people named Meliah (594 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 638 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% 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).
How common is the spelling Meliah?
Meliah is a less common spelling of Melia: SSA has recorded 765 Meliah and 5,321 Melia since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 11,022 babies since 1880, Meliah is the fifth most given (6.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 180 babies (12%), the third 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 Meliah
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 Meliah and names like it
- Compare Meliah and MeliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMeliah peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Meliah since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Meliah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Meliah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.