Girls' name · since 2006
Meliya
Since 2006, U.S. Social Security records show 102 babies named Meliya, peaking in 2009. See the year-by-year trend, decade totals, and state rankings below, sourced from federal birth data.
- 102
- total births
- 2006–2023
- years on record
- 2010s
- peak decade
- 70%
- born in that decade
Meliya sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 102 recorded since 2006.
Meliya has 102 recorded births among girls since 2006, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2010s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2006 to 2023.
- 102 total births
- 2006–2023 years on record
- 2010s peak decade
- 70% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Meliya's 102 recorded births place it above 63% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Meliya's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Meliya's full recorded timeline at 2013, 53% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 47% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 2006, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2009 peak of 13 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Meliya popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2006–2023
- Peak year (2009)
- 13
- Annual births at peak, across 18 years of records
Meliya by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
2010s was Meliya's strongest decade.
71 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 70% of all-time use.
Meliya births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s 25
2000s
25 births
- 2010s
2010s
71 births
- 2020s 6
2020s
6 births
What this shows Peak: 2010s at 71 births (70% of all-time use).
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- Meliya's decade-level peak was the 2010s (71 total births); usage has since declined to 6 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
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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, 2006–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Meliya: Baby Name Since 2006 - 102 Births, Peak 2009." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/meliya. 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 Meliya 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.