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Melia

#2,527 in 2025Girls' name

Ash tree

Melia has been given to 5,321 babies in the U.S. since 1890. In 2025 it ranked #2,527 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 198 recorded.

Babies named Melia, 2025

1 in 47,400

Melia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Melia: meaning, origin, and history

Ash tree

Hawaiian

What Melia means

Melia means “ash tree”.

Origin, language, and formation

Melia is used in English, Asturian and Hawaiian. Its origins include Hawaiian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Amelia.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Asturian, Melia is pronounced /ˈmelja/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,321 girls were recorded with the name Melia between 1890 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 198 in 2006; its best national rank was #1,066 in 1890.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,855 in 2020 to #2,527 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,673 in 2015 to #2,527 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 Melia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 47,400
70 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 23,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,527
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
32,828 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Melia 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 32,828 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Melia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Melias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Melia was born before 2005 — so the typical Melia is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
30.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
61.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,184
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 30.0% of all recorded uses (1,595).

Is Melia 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
−47
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−672
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−854
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.55×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
35.4%
Peak was 2006 (198)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,066
1890

Spellings of Melia

Melia is not the most common spelling — Melissa is, with 16.7% against Melia's 0.12%.

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 Melia is used

Across 2016–2025, Melia was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 4,348 girls, against 1 in 19,407 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in 100,000).

123 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 4,348
  2. 2Florida1 in 11,111
  3. 3California1 in 12,500
  4. 4New York1 in 14,286
  5. 5Michigan1 in 16,667
  6. 6Georgia1 in 20,000
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 20,000
  8. 8Iowa1 in 25,000

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.

Melia around the world

Where Melia 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
    2001–2025
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • France
    1902–2025
    #386
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2024
    #1,075
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1966–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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

Notable people named Melia

People whose public names include Melia, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Melia in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Melia. Linked forms have their own page here.

Emalia

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Melia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,527
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 672
Best rank ever
#1,066
1890
Peak year
2006
198 that year
First recorded
1890
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,321
Count in 2025
70

Names similar to Melia

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

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Names with a curve like Melia

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Melia, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

LanieJaciRiaDalilaKerenAnnelieseMalenaZaidaMarinAnisaAnjaSamia

Sibling names for Melia

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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