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Melih

Boys' name

Beautiful, graceful, elegant

Melih has been given to 41 babies in the U.S. since 2007. 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 2007, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Melih, 2017

1 in 596,000

Melih over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Melih: meaning, origin, and history

Beautiful, graceful, elegant

Arabic

What Melih means

Melih means “beautiful, graceful, elegant”, associated with malīḥ.

Origin, language, and formation

Melih is used in Turkish. Its origins include Arabic.

Melih comes through Ottoman Turkish ملیح and Arabic مَلِيح.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Turkish, Melih is pronounced /me.lih/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 41 boys were recorded with the name Melih between 2007 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2007; its best national rank was #11,657 in 2014.

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 Melih?

Melih had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 596,000
6 of 3,577,106 births
Among boys only
1 in 308,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
413,245 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Melih sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2017 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 413,245 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Melih. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Melihs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Melih was born before 2014 — so the typical Melih is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
85.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
41
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 85.4% of all recorded uses (35).

Is Melih 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 2007 (6)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
7.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#11,657
2014

Spellings of Melih

Melih is not the most common spelling — Melvin is, with 42.8% against Melih'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.

Melih around the world

Where Melih 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
    2001–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • France
    1978–2025
    #976
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Melih by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#11,657
2014
Peak year
2007
6 that year
First recorded
2007
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
41
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Melih

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

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Sibling names for Melih

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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