Girls' name · since 1958
Melicia
210 babies named Melicia in U.S. Social Security records since 1958, with the highest year being 1988. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 210
- total births
- 1958–2008
- years on record
- 1970s
- peak decade
- 24%
- born in that decade
210 girls have been named Melicia since 1958, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Melicia has 210 recorded births among girls since 1958, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1970s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1958 to 2008.
- 210 total births
- 1958–2008 years on record
- 1970s peak decade
- 24% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Melicia's 210 recorded births place it above 73% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Melicia's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Melicia splits its recorded history at 1980: 50% of all births land in the more recent half, 50% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1962 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1988 peak of 11 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Melicia popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1958–2008
- Peak year (1988)
- 11
- Annual births at peak, across 51 years of records
Melicia by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1970s was Melicia's strongest decade.
51 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 24% of all-time use.
Melicia births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1950s 6
1950s
6 births
- 1960s
1960s
47 births
- 1970s
1970s
51 births
- 1980s
1980s
46 births
- 1990s
1990s
41 births
- 2000s 19
2000s
19 births
What this shows Peak: 1970s at 51 births (24% of all-time use).
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- Melicia's usage has stayed within range of its 1970s decade-level peak (51 total births) through the 2000s (19) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1958–2008 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Melicia: Baby Name Since 1958 - 210 Births, Peak 1988." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/melicia. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Melicia draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.