Meliyah
Meliyah was given to 13 girls in 2025, #8,179 among girls’ names; 505 Americans have been recorded with it since 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Meliyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Meliyah?
#8,179 among girls’ names, 2025
Meliyah fell from #5,776 in 2015 to #8,179 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 12.9 to 8.1 per million.
35 babies in 2009, the peak
Meliyah peaked in 2009, when 35 girls were given it, #4,341 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 37% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,179 | 8.1 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,833 | 8.6 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,576 | 11.2 |
| 2022 | 24 | #5,419 | 14.6 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,886 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,596 | 13.6 |
| 2019 | 26 | #5,122 | 15.5 |
| 2018 | 30 | #4,636 | 17.6 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,446 | 11.0 |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,118 | 11.9 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23 | #5,776 | 12.9 |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,409 | 14.0 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,629 | 9.1 |
| 2012 | 15 | #8,069 | 8.5 |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,873 | 13.1 |
| 2010 | 33 | #4,465 | 18.6 |
| 2009 | 35 | #4,341 | 19.1 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,690 | 13.2 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,300 | 9.4 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,702 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,249 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,565 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,481 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,256 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,520 | 9.4 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,640 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,005 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Meliyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Meliyah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Meliyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Meliyah, and how old are they?
An estimated 501 Americans named Meliyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 327 people named Meliyah (327 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 403 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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).
How common is the spelling Meliyah?
Meliyah is a less common spelling of Melia: SSA has recorded 505 Meliyah and 5,321 Melia since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 8,990 babies since 1880, Meliyah is the fourth most given (5.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 146 babies (8.9%), the third most given that year.
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 Meliyah
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.
More about Meliyah and names like it
- Compare Meliyah and MeliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMeliyah peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Meliyah since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Meliyah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Meliyah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.