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Meilin

#6,255 in 2025Girls' name

Beautiful or Chinese plum

Meilin has been given to 350 babies in the U.S. since 1986. In 2025 it ranked #6,255 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Meilin, 2025

1 in 174,000

Meilin over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Meilin: meaning, origin, and history

Beautiful or Chinese plum

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Meilin means

Meilin means “beautiful or Chinese plum”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 350 girls were recorded with the name Meilin between 1986 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 22 in 2010; its best national rank was #6,107 in 2010.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,020 in 2020 to #6,255 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #13,984 in 2015 to #6,255 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Meilin?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 174,000
19 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 84,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,255
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
120,943 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Meilin sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 120,943 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Meilin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Meilins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Meilin was born before 2011 — so the typical Meilin is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
34.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
350
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 34.3% of all recorded uses (120).

Is Meilin 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
+882
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,765
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+7,729
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.71×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
86.4%
Peak was 2010 (22)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
44.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,107
2010

Spellings of Meilin

Meilin is not the most common spelling — Melina is, with 25.0% against Meilin's 0.44%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Meilin is used

Across 1910–2025, Meilin was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,767,030 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Meilin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Meilin around the world

Where Meilin 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.

  • England & Wales
    2018–2018
    #4,684
    in 2018
  • France
    2002–2023
    #6,173
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1985–1987
    #684
    in 1987

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Meilin by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,255
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,765
Best rank ever
#6,107
2010
Peak year
2010
22 that year
First recorded
1986
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
350
Count in 2025
19

Names similar to Meilin

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Meilin

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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