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Melita

Girls' name

Form of Melite

Melita has been given to 1,861 babies in the U.S. since 1894. 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 1973, with 45 recorded.

Babies named Melita, 2023

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Melita: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Melite

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Melita means

Melita is a form of Melite.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Melita is used in Greek Mythology (Latinized).

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Melite.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,861 girls were recorded with the name Melita between 1894 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 45 in 1973; its best national rank was #1,440 in 1894.

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.

How common is Melita?

Melita had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Melita 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Melita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Melitas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Melita was born before 1968 — so the typical Melita is around 57 today.

Median birth year
1968
About 57 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
21.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
10.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,429
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 21.3% of all recorded uses (397).

Is Melita 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1973 (45)
Years since peak
52
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,440
1894

Spellings of Melita

Melita is not the most common spelling — Melissa is, with 43.2% against Melita's 0.11%.

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 Melita is used

Across 1910–2025, Melita was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 653,494 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in —
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3North Carolina1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 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. Melita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Melita around the world

Where Melita 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
    1997–2024
    #4,844
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2011–2018
    #896
    in 2018
  • France
    1913–1976
    #2,362
    in 1976
  • Canada
    2017–2017
    #3,407
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1949–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, 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. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Melita by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,440
1894
Peak year
1973
45 that year
First recorded
1894
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
1,861
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Melita

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

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Sibling names for Melita

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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