Melita
Melita was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 1,861 Americans have been recorded with it between 1894 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,390 Americans named Melita and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (75% of everyone recorded); the median is 53 years old and half are between 43 and 64.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Melita by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Melita?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,794, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
45 babies in 1973, the peak
Melita peaked in 1973, when 45 girls were given it, #1,872 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #16,794 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,724 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,664 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,700 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,188 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,325 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,632 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,971 | 2.8 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,763 | 3.4 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,889 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (117)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 9 | #11,656 | 5.1 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,509 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,611 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,457 | 3.9 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,400 | 7.9 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,368 | 6.8 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,596 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,783 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,411 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,851 | 7.7 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,690 | 7.8 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,594 | 7.8 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,665 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,820 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,772 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,645 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,258 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,428 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,939 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,697 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,140 | 8.0 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,340 | 7.4 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,730 | 8.1 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,790 | 7.9 |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,601 | 10.4 |
| 1986 | 12 | #6,016 | 7.0 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,239 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,754 | 7.1 |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,900 | 12.0 |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,274 | 10.6 |
| 1981 | 36 | #2,599 | 21.6 |
| 1980 | 42 | #2,329 | 25.3 |
| 1979 | 31 | #2,832 | 19.3 |
| 1978 | 45 | #2,111 | 29.4 |
| 1977 | 42 | #2,202 | 27.4 |
| 1976 | 41 | #2,126 | 28.0 |
| 1975 | 39 | #2,185 | 26.8 |
| 1974 | 36 | #2,238 | 24.5 |
| 1973 | 45 | #1,872 | 30.9 |
| 1972 | 35 | #2,203 | 23.0 |
| 1971 | 42 | #2,025 | 25.2 |
| 1970 | 41 | #2,035 | 23.5 |
| 1969 | 37 | #2,089 | 21.9 |
| 1968 | 35 | #2,042 | 21.3 |
| 1967 | 35 | #1,995 | 21.2 |
| 1966 | 34 | #2,004 | 20.1 |
| 1965 | 26 | #2,386 | 14.7 |
| 1964 | 29 | #2,285 | 15.3 |
| 1963 | 37 | #1,939 | 19.2 |
| 1962 | 35 | #1,973 | 17.8 |
| 1961 | 29 | #2,230 | 14.4 |
| 1960 | 21 | #2,697 | 10.4 |
| 1959 | 22 | #2,494 | 10.9 |
| 1958 | 20 | #2,630 | 9.9 |
| 1957 | 26 | #2,202 | 12.7 |
| 1956 | 38 | #1,731 | 18.9 |
| 1955 | 37 | #1,718 | 18.9 |
| 1954 | 21 | #2,418 | 10.8 |
| 1953 | 16 | #2,775 | 8.5 |
| 1952 | 19 | #2,477 | 10.2 |
| 1951 | 31 | #1,764 | 17.2 |
| 1950 | 22 | #2,100 | 12.8 |
| 1949 | 19 | #2,315 | 11.1 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,915 | 7.7 |
| 1947 | 20 | #2,258 | 11.3 |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,367 | 6.4 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,305 | 6.9 |
| 1944 | 10 | #3,083 | 7.5 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,530 | 4.3 |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,349 | 6.7 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,269 | 5.0 |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,414 | 7.0 |
| 1939 | 9 | #3,067 | 8.2 |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,408 | 11.8 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,691 | 6.6 |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,642 | 10.6 |
| 1935 | 9 | #3,086 | 8.6 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,756 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,813 | 9.9 |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,592 | 11.2 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,735 | 6.6 |
| 1930 | 15 | #2,265 | 13.3 |
| 1929 | 14 | #2,393 | 12.5 |
| 1928 | 10 | #3,086 | 8.7 |
| 1926 | 10 | #3,198 | 8.4 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,563 | 7.4 |
| 1924 | 10 | #3,294 | 8.0 |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,281 | 8.3 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,571 | 7.5 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,903 | 6.5 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,842 | 6.7 |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,375 | 8.0 |
| 1918 | 18 | #2,076 | 15.5 |
| 1917 | 16 | #2,164 | 14.8 |
| 1916 | 12 | #2,605 | 11.5 |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,833 | 10.2 |
| 1914 | 5 | #4,001 | 6.6 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,472 | 12.8 |
| 1912 | 9 | #2,080 | 16.1 |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,743 | 21.5 |
| 1909 | 6 | #2,151 | 17.3 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,274 | 15.7 |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,598 | 25.4 |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,607 | 25.1 |
| 1900 | 5 | #2,120 | 16.7 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,870 | 19.3 |
| 1894 | 6 | #1,440 | 26.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Melita a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Melita has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 117 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Melita: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Melita, and how old are they?
1,390 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 75% of the 1,861 Americans ever recorded as Melita. The median Melita alive today is 53 years old; half are between 43 and 64.
The 2020 Census counted 2,068 people named Melita (2,062 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,448 born in the U.S. The Census count is 43% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 47 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 368 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 563 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 212 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 135 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 65 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,944 babies since 1880, Melita is the most given (96% of them).
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 Melita
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1890-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Gretchen | 53,837 | |
| Antonietta | 1,260 | |
| Genia | 1,673 | |
| Imelda | 7,476 |
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 Melita and names like it
- Compare Melita and MelittaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sMelita peaked in 1973.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Melita since 1910.
- The top names of 1973The year the most babies were named Melita.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Melita alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with MMost given first.