Melida
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Melida has been given to 678 babies in the U.S. since 1917. 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 1976, with 15 recorded.
Babies named Melida, 2024
1 in 334,000
Melida 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Melida?
Melida had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 334,000
- 10 of 3,342,801 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 162,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 231,706 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Melida sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 231,706 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Melida. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Melidas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Melida was born before 1980 — so the typical Melida is around 45 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 13.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 24.3%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 593
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 13.3% of all recorded uses (90).
Is Melida 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
- —
- 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 1976 (15)
- Years since peak
- 49
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 39.8% average annual change
Spellings of Melida
Melida is not the most common spelling — Melissa is, with 38.3% against Melida'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.
Where Melida is used
Across 1910–2025, Melida was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 241,826 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Texas1 in 100,000
- 2California1 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. Melida has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Melida around the world
Where Melida 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.
- France1902–1982#3,136in 1982
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Melida by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Melida
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Melida
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.