Melah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- MEH-la
- US rank, 2025
- #9,454 for girls
Melah is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 9,454th for girls in the US (10 babies).
Where does Melah come from?
Spelling of Mela; pet form of names such as Melania or Amelia
Meaning borrowed from Mela.
Is Melah a girl's or a boy's name?
Melah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Melah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 9,454th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 10 about 1 in 160,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 41% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 10 girls in the US were named Melah, making it the 9,454th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,165th. Its busiest year was 2019, with 39 girls. It first appears in the records in 2005.
2025 had fewer girls named Melah than any year since 2009.
Half of all the girls named Melah in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
Melah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,454 |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,796 |
| 2023 | 26 | #4,996 |
| 2022 | 16 | #6,979 |
| 2021 | 30 | #4,503 |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,165 |
| 2019 | 39 | #3,787 |
| 2018 | 34 | #4,143 |
| 2017 | 28 | #4,809 |
| 2016 | 21 | #5,983 |
| 2015 | 26 | #5,125 |
| 2014 | 24 | #5,454 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,725 |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,707 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,610 |
| 2010 | 18 | #6,901 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,423 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,594 |
| 2007 | 5 | #17,630 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,412 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,455 |
Names like Melah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Hadassah, Zaniyah, Zaliyah, Safa, Salem, Zaya, Nusaybah, Aaliyah, Naziyah, Zainab, Zayla, Farah
Names related to Melah
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, “Melah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/melah, updated 20 October 2026.