Meilah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- MAY-la
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #10,104 for girls
Meilah is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 10,104th for girls in the US (9 babies).
Where does Meilah come from?
Modern: spelling of Meila
Meaning borrowed from Meila.
Is Meilah a girl's or a boy's name?
Meilah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Meilah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,104th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 180,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 9 girls in the US were named Meilah, making it the 10,104th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,137th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 19 girls. It first appears in the records in 2009.
2025 had fewer girls named Meilah than any year since 2020.
Half of all the girls named Meilah in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 194 girls in the US were given Meilah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,077, up from #10,104 for this spelling alone.
Meilah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,104 |
| 2024 | 11 | #8,941 |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,675 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,050 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,170 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,137 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,730 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,405 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,804 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 9 | #10,861 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,050 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,230 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,251 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 5 | #16,985 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,236 |
Names like Meilah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zaliyah, Zaniyah, Zayla, Hadassah, Kaliyah, Aziyah, Alaiyah, Nusaybah, Kamiyah, Amoura, Azylah, Zaya
Other spellings of Meilah
Names related to Meilah
More Modern names
Jayden, Ailany, Myla, Kayden, Nevaeh, Jax, Indie, Miley, Raelynn, Kaiden, Kehlani, Alayna, Caden, Zayden, Wrenley, Mya
Sources
Figures from 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, “Meilah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/meilah, updated 20 October 2026.