Meela
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- MEE-la
- Origin
- Slavic
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,856 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #5,409 for girls
Meela is a girls' name of Slavic origin, meaning “gracious, dear”. In 2025 it ranked 2,856th for girls in the UK (9 babies) and 5,409th for girls in the US (23 babies).
What does Meela mean?
Slavic: phonetic spelling of Mila
“gracious, dear”
A spelling of Mila, from the Slavic element mil 'gracious, dear', also short for Ludmila and Camila.
Is Meela a girl's or a boy's name?
Meela is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 girls in the UK and 23 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Meela in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,856th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 31,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 24% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 9 girls in the UK were named Meela, making it the 2,856th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,407th. Its busiest year was 2019, with 15 girls.
Half of all the girls named Meela in the UK since 1996 were born between 2016 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,153 girls in the UK were given Meela or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #46, up from #2,856 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 2,786th in England and Wales.
Meela in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #2,856 |
| 2024 | 6 | #3,758 |
| 2023 | 13 | #2,185 |
| 2022 | 13 | #2,157 |
| 2021 | 11 | #2,478 |
| 2020 | 11 | #2,407 |
| 2019 | 15 | #1,958 |
| 2018 | 11 | #2,464 |
| 2017 | 5 | #4,250 |
| 2016 | 6 | #3,788 |
| 2015 | 8 | #3,114 |
| 2014 | 8 | #3,031 |
| 2013 | 4 | #4,953 |
| 2012 | 3 | #6,108 |
| 2011 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 3 | #5,772 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 1 | #6,173 |
How popular is Meela in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,409th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 23 about 1 in 70,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 24% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 23 girls in the US were named Meela, making it the 5,409th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,878th. Its busiest year was 2013, with 52 girls. It first appears in the records in 2005.
2025 had fewer girls named Meela than any year since 2010.
Half of all the girls named Meela in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 4,946 girls in the US were given Meela or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #53, up from #5,409 for this spelling alone.
Meela in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #5,409 |
| 2024 | 25 | #5,145 |
| 2023 | 25 | #5,123 |
| 2022 | 27 | #4,904 |
| 2021 | 27 | #4,829 |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,878 |
| 2019 | 31 | #4,436 |
| 2018 | 39 | #3,788 |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,918 |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,733 |
| 2015 | 33 | #4,294 |
| 2014 | 40 | #3,776 |
| 2013 | 52 | #3,122 |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,555 |
| 2011 | 36 | #4,071 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,380 |
| 2009 | 13 | #8,884 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,069 |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,808 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,606 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,003 |
Names like Meela
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Ayra, Hafsa, Hiba, Rahma, Abeeha, Mirha, Aiza, Zainab, Irha, Ayah, Ayla
Other spellings of Meela
Names related to Meela
More Slavic names
Milan, Vera, Mira, Nadia, Milana, Rayna, Zora, Milena, Raina, Damir, Lev, Siyana, Vlad, Lilyana, Yuri, Raisa
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Meela: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/meela, updated 20 October 2026.