Meelah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- MEE-lah
- Origin
- Slavic
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,935 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #7,489 for girls
Meelah is a girls' name of Slavic origin, meaning “gracious, dear”. In 2025 it ranked 4,935th for girls in the UK (4 babies) and 7,489th for girls in the US (14 babies).
What does Meelah mean?
Slavic: spelling of Mila
“gracious, dear”
A spelling of Mila, from the Slavic element mil 'gracious, dear'.
Is Meelah a girl's or a boy's name?
Meelah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 girls in the UK and 14 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Meelah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,935th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 4 about 1 in 70,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 11% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 4 girls in the UK were named Meelah, making it the 4,935th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2023, with 6 girls.
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,866th in England and Wales.
Meelah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | #4,935 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 6 | #3,766 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 3 | #5,824 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 4 | #4,904 |
| 2018 | 5 | #4,204 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 5 | #4,290 |
How popular is Meelah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 7,489th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 14 about 1 in 110,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 34% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 14 girls in the US were named Meelah, making it the 7,489th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,878th. Its busiest year was 2019, with 34 girls. It first appears in the records in 2006.
It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 4 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Meelah than any year since 2010.
Half of all the girls named Meelah in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
Meelah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,489 |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,796 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,544 |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,169 |
| 2021 | 32 | #4,322 |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,878 |
| 2019 | 34 | #4,161 |
| 2018 | 27 | #4,886 |
| 2017 | 27 | #4,920 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,227 |
| 2015 | 28 | #4,852 |
| 2014 | 30 | #4,655 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,642 |
| 2012 | 25 | #5,396 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,332 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,270 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,236 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,399 |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,485 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,163 |
Names like Meelah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Nusaybah, Safa, Ayah, Zainab, Hafsa, Izzah, Aaliyah, Ruqayyah, Rahma, Zairah, Abeeha, Sumayyah
Names related to Meelah
More Slavic names
Mila, Milan, Vera, Mira, Nadia, Milana, Rayna, Zora, Milena, Raina, Damir, Lev, Siyana, Vlad, Lilyana, Yuri
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, “Meelah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/meelah, updated 20 October 2026.