Meelad
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Meelad has been given to 14 babies in the U.S. since 1997. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1997, with 7 recorded.
Babies named Meelad, 2000
1 in 540,000
Meelad over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Meelad?
Meelad had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2000, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2000
- 1 in 540,000
- 7 of 3,778,496 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 280,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2000
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 374,152 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Meelad sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2000 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 374,152 children born in 2000 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Meelad. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Meelads were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Meelad was born before 1997 — so the typical Meelad is around 28 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 50.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 14
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (7).
Is Meelad rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1997 (7)
- Years since peak
- 28
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Meelad
Meelad is not the most common spelling — Keelan is, with 48.2% against Meelad's 0.19%.
Where Meelad is used
Across 1910–2025, Meelad was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,905,450 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Meelad has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Meelad around the world
Where Meelad ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- South Australia2013–2013#754in 2013
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Meelad by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Meelad
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Meelad
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.