Melecia
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Melecia has been given to 40 babies in the U.S. since 1964. 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 1968, with 7 recorded.
Babies named Melecia, 1995
1 in 732,000
Melecia 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Melecia?
Melecia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1995, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1995
- 1 in 732,000
- 5 of 3,660,254 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 352,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1995
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 507,420 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Melecia sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1995 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 507,420 children born in 1995 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Melecia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Melecias were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Melecia was born before 1980 — so the typical Melecia is around 45 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 47.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 52.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 40
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 47.5% of all recorded uses (19).
Is Melecia 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
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- 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 1968 (7)
- Years since peak
- 57
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Very steady
- 0% average annual change
Spellings of Melecia
Melecia is not the most common spelling — Felicia is, with 64.7% against Melecia's 0.03%.
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.
Melecia by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Melecia
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Melecia
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.