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Meli

#9,881 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Carmelo

Meli has been given to 186 babies in the U.S. since 1986. In 2025 it ranked #9,881 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Meli, 2025

1 in 332,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Meli: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Carmelo

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Meli means

Meli is a form of Carmelo.

Origin, language, and formation

Meli is used in Italian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Carmelo.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 186 girls were recorded with the name Meli between 1986 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2024; its best national rank was #7,468 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,338 in 2020 to #9,881 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #15,761 in 2015 to #9,881 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 Meli?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 161,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,881
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Meli 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Meli. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Melis were born

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

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
36.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
186
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 36.6% of all recorded uses (68).

Is Meli 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
−2,413
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−543
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+5,880
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.67×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
66.7%
Peak was 2024 (15)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,468
2024

Spellings of Meli

Meli is not the most common spelling — Amelia is, with 20.9% against Meli's 0.01%.

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.

Meli around the world

Where Meli 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
    2025–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • France
    2005–2022
    #5,230
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    2005–2005
    #775
    in 2005

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

Meli by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,881
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 543
Best rank ever
#7,468
2024
Peak year
2024
15 that year
First recorded
1986
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
186
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Meli

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

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Sibling names for Meli

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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