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Meleana

#11,572 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly to be bitter, through Mary

Meleana has been given to 284 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #11,572 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Meleana, 2025

1 in 414,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Meleana: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly to be bitter, through Mary

English

What Meleana means

Meleana belongs to the name family reached through Meleana → Mary → Marie → Maria → מרים. Its meaning is “to be bitter”.

Origin, language, and formation

Meleana is used in Hawaiian. Its origins include English.

Meleana comes through English Mary and English Mary Ann.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mary, Marie, Maria and מרים.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hawaiian, Meleana is pronounced /me.leˈa.na/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 284 girls were recorded with the name Meleana between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 20 in 2012; its best national rank was #6,498 in 2012.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #9,316 in 2015 to #11,572 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 Meleana?

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
#11,572
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Meleana 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 Meleana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Meleanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Meleana was born before 2009 — so the typical Meleana is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
39.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
80.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
284
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 39.1% of all recorded uses (111).

Is Meleana 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
+5,293
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,256
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.67×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
40.0%
Peak was 2012 (20)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
48.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,498
2012

Spellings of Meleana

Meleana is not the most common spelling — Elena is, with 26.0% against Meleana's 0.07%.

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 Meleana is used

Across 1910–2025, Meleana was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 51,319 across all states with data.

22 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 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. Meleana has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Meleana around the world

Where Meleana 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.

  • France
    2008–2008
    #6,457
    in 2008
  • South Australia
    2000–2000
    #727
    in 2000

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Meleana by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,572
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#6,498
2012
Peak year
2012
20 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
284
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Meleana

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

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Sibling names for Meleana

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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