Meliya
Meliya was last recorded in 2023, when 6 babies were given it; 102 Americans have been recorded with it between 2006 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Meliya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Meliya?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,579, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 2009, the peak
Meliya peaked in 2009, when 13 girls were given it, #9,223 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6 | #14,579 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 8 | #12,067 | 4.8 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,568 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,476 | 5.1 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,541 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,673 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,139 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,227 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,317 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,966 | 5.6 |
Every recorded year (13)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 13 | #9,223 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,864 | 3.7 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,073 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Meliya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Meliya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 13 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Meliya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Meliya, and how old are they?
An estimated 101 Americans named Meliya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 10 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
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.
Names spelled alike
Meliya is a less common spelling of Melia: SSA has recorded 102 Meliya and 5,321 Melia 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 Meliya
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.