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Melek

#4,138 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Angel

Melek has been given to 645 babies in the U.S. since 1987. In 2025 it ranked #4,138 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 98 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 90% girls, 10% boys all-time.

Babies named Melek, 2025

1 in 94,700

Melek over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Melek over time

In 2025, Melek went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19872025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Melek: meaning, origin, and history

Angel

Arabic

What Melek means

Melek means “angel”, associated with melek.

Origin, language, and formation

Melek is used in Turkish. Its origins include Arabic.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 578 girls were recorded with the name Melek between 1987 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 98 in 2022; its best national rank was #2,002 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,445 in 2020 to #4,138 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,168 in 2015 to #4,138 in 2025.

In the United States, 67 boys were recorded with the name Melek between 1995 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1995; its best national rank was #7,518 in 1995.

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 Melek?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 94,700
35 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 45,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,138
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
65,655 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Melek 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 65,655 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Melek. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Meleks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Melek was born before 2021 — so the typical Melek is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
62.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
99.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
578
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 62.1% of all recorded uses (359).

Is Melek 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
−1,225
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,307
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,030
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.06×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
35.7%
Peak was 2022 (98)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
54.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,002
2021

Spellings of Melek

Melek is not the most common spelling — Helen is, with 89.4% against Melek's 0.05%.

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 Melek is used

Across 1910–2025, Melek was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 285,764 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Georgia1 in —
  5. 5New Jersey1 in —
  6. 6New York1 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. Melek has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Melek around the world

Where Melek 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
    1996–2025
    #1,892
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2009–2009
    #783
    in 2009
  • Ireland
    2025–2025
    #544
    in 2025
  • France
    1974–2025
    #708
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2003–2023
    #2,973
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1974–2010
    #801
    in 2010

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

Melek by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,138
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,307
Best rank ever
#2,002
2021
Peak year
2022
98 that year
First recorded
1987
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
578
Count in 2025
35

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,518
1995
Peak year
1995
7 that year
First recorded
1995
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
67
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Melek

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

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Sibling names for Melek

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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