Mele

#8,177 in 2025Girls' name

Chant, song

Mele has been given to 927 babies in the U.S. since 1955. In 2025 it ranked #8,177 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1991, with 33 recorded.

Babies named Mele, 2025

1 in 255,000

Mele over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mele: meaning, origin, and history

Chant, song

English and Hawaiian

What Mele means

Mele means “chant, song”, associated with mele.

Origin, language, and formation

Mele is used in Hawaiian. Its origins include English and Hawaiian.

Mele comes through English Mary.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hawaiian, Mele is pronounced /ˈme.le/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 927 girls were recorded with the name Mele between 1955 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 33 in 1991; its best national rank was #3,336 in 1991.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,444 in 2020 to #8,177 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,247 in 2015 to #8,177 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Mele?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 255,000; 13 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 124,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #8,177; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 176,762 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Mele 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mele. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Meles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mele was born before 1999 — so the typical Mele is around 26 today.

Median birth year: 1999; About 26 years old
Biggest decade: 1990s; 23.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 46.8%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 927; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1990s — 23.4% of all recorded uses (217).

Is Mele 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: +1,177; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: −733; Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago: −2,930; Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago: 0.50×; Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak: 39.4%; Peak was 1991 (33)
Years since peak: 34; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 34.4% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,336; 1991

Spellings of Mele

Mele is not the most common spelling — Helen is, with 53.3% against Mele's 0.05%.

Helen53.3%1,024,202
Mae6.0%114,835
Mila4.4%84,489
Lee3.2%62,299
Mable2.8%53,251
Lela2.2%43,005
Adele2.2%42,362
Melba1.8%34,873

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 Mele is used

Across 1910–2025, Mele was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 6,667 girls, against 1 in 38,493 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in 50,000).

215 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Hawaii1 in 6,667
2Utah1 in 14,286
3California1 in 50,000

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. Mele has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mele by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #8,177
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Down 733
Best rank ever: #3,336; 1991
Peak year: 1991; 33 that year
First recorded: 1955
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 927
Count in 2025: 13

Names similar to Mele

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

Mela Melea Melek Mel Melah Melana Meli Meliza Meliah Melis Melena Meleah Melat Melodi Melanny Melika Meloni Mellie Mely Melora Melda Melrose Melia Melaina

Sibling names for Mele

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

For a sister

Shelbi Shelbie Kacy Alesha Jacquelynn Kia Stefani Chanelle

For a brother

Coty Brandan Bradly Garrick Laron Derrell Kelsey Arron

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