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Meklit

#11,569 in 2025Girls' name

Talent

Meklit has been given to 506 babies in the U.S. since 2003. In 2025 it ranked #11,569 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 40 recorded.

Babies named Meklit, 2025

1 in 414,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Meklit: meaning, origin, and history

Talent

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Meklit means

Meklit means “talent”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Meklit is used in Amharic.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 506 girls were recorded with the name Meklit between 2003 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 40 in 2017; its best national rank was #3,764 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,120 in 2020 to #11,569 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,463 in 2015 to #11,569 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 Meklit?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#11,569
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Meklit 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Meklit. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Meklits were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Meklit was born before 2016 — so the typical Meklit is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
60.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
506
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 60.3% of all recorded uses (305).

Is Meklit 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
−6,020
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−6,449
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−7,106
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.25×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
20.0%
Peak was 2017 (40)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,764
2019

Spellings of Meklit

Meklit is not the most common spelling — Melia is, with 46.8% against Meklit's 4.5%.

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 Meklit is used

Across 1910–2025, Meklit was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 433,983 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1District of Columbia1 in 100,000
  2. 2Maryland1 in 100,000
  3. 3Washington1 in 100,000
  4. 4California1 in —
  5. 5Colorado1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 in —
  7. 7Virginia1 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. Meklit has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Meklit around the world

Where Meklit 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
    2009–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2010–2023
    #3,391
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Meklit by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,569
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 6,449
Best rank ever
#3,764
2019
Peak year
2017
40 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
506
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Meklit

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

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Sibling names for Meklit

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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