Meliza — girls' name
1,048 babies named Meliza in U.S. Social Security records since 1967, with the highest year being 1997. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
31% of everyone ever named Meliza was born in this single decade.
49 babies were named Meliza in 1997 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Meliza
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,048 babies named Meliza between 1967 and 2023, spanning 57 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Meliza currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1997, when 49 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Meliza performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 323 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Meliza shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 264 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Meliza in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Meliza in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,048 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Meliza at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Meliza popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1967
- Peak year (1997)
- 49
- Annual births at peak — across 57 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
1,048 total births across 57 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1997 with 49 births in a single year.
Meliza by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 323 births that decade — 31% of Meliza's all-time total
Meliza decade highlights
- Peak decade 323 births
- Runner-up 323 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Meliza's strongest decade
323 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 31% of all-time use.
Meliza by state
Where Meliza concentrates geographically — total births since 1967
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 264 | 25.2% |
| #2 | Texas | | 71 | 6.8% |
| #3 | New York | | 33 | 3.1% |
| #4 | Illinois | | 7 | 0.7% |
264 of 1,048 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 4 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 25.2% of nationwide
- Texas 6.8% of nationwide
- New York 3.1% of nationwide
- Illinois 0.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 4 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 25.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1967–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.