Melicia
Melicia was last recorded in 2008, when 6 babies were given it; 210 Americans have been recorded with it between 1958 and 2008 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Melicia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Melicia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,788, in 2008; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 1988, the peak
Melicia peaked in 1988, when 11 girls were given it, #6,947 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 6 | #16,788 | 3.2 |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,011 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,677 | 2.8 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,931 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,906 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,938 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,111 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,069 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,962 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,318 | 4.3 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 11 | #6,947 | 6.2 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,735 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,898 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,643 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,861 | 4.8 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,793 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,826 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,632 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,140 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,322 | 6.6 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,391 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,797 | 4.0 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,375 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 9 | #5,020 | 5.5 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,837 | 4.2 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,254 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,623 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,825 | 3.7 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,218 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,874 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Melicia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Melicia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Melicia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Melicia, and how old are they?
An estimated 198 Americans named Melicia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 35 and 56. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 361 people named Melicia (359 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 201 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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
Melicia is a less common spelling of Melissia: SSA has recorded 210 Melicia and 1,926 Melissia since 1880.
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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Melicia
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.