Meliyah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- meh-LY-uh
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #7,883 for girls
Meliyah is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 7,883rd for girls in the US (13 babies).
Where does Meliyah come from?
Modern: modern coinage of uncertain origin
Is Meliyah a girl's or a boy's name?
Meliyah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 13 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Meliyah in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2019, with 4 girls.
Meliyah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3 | #5,966 |
| 2023 | 3 | #5,929 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 4 | #4,864 |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 4 | #4,904 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 3 | #6,009 |
How popular is Meliyah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #7,883among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 13about 1 in 120,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 42% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 13 girls in the US were named Meliyah, making it the 7,883rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,483rd. Its busiest year was 2009, with 35 girls. It first appears in the records in 1999.
It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Meliyah than any year since 2006.
Half of all the girls named Meliyah in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
Meliyah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #7,883 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,590 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,404 |
| 2022 | 24 | #5,306 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,625 |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,483 |
| 2019 | 26 | #5,039 |
| 2018 | 30 | #4,560 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,283 |
| 2016 | 21 | #5,983 |
| 2015 | 23 | #5,651 |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,308 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,368 |
| 2012 | 15 | #7,800 |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,725 |
| 2010 | 33 | #4,396 |
| 2009 | 35 | #4,268 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,571 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,088 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,282 |
| 2005 | 12 | #8,878 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,254 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,043 |
| 2002 | 11 | #8,831 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,317 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,156 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,403 |
Names like Meliyah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah Safa Nusaybah Ayah Sumayyah Zainab Ruqayyah Zaniyah Kaliyah Aafiyah Hafsa Abeeha
Names related to Meliyah
More Modern names
Jayden Ailany Myla Kayden Nevaeh Jax Indie Miley Raelynn Kaiden Kehlani Alayna Caden Zayden Wrenley Mya
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, “Meliyah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/meliyah, updated 20 October 2026.