How popular is “Meliyah” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Meliyah” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

This chart shows how the popularity of “Meliyah” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Meliyah” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

This chart shows how “Meliyah” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Bias toward female
1999	5	0.000001354	5	100%
2000	10	0.000002646	10	100%
2001	17	0.000004541	17	100%
2002	11	0.000002943	11	100%
2003	11	0.000002893	11	100%
2004	13	0.000003402	13	100%
2005	12	0.000003121	12	100%
2006	12	0.000003033	12	100%
2007	18	0.000004503	18	100%
2008	25	0.00000636	25	100%
2009	35	0.000009162	35	100%
2010	33	0.000008929	33	100%
2011	23	0.000006288	23	100%
2012	15	0.000004101	15	100%
2013	16	0.000004389	16	100%
2014	25	0.000006745	25	100%
2015	23	0.000006215	23	100%
2016	21	0.000005724	21	100%
2017	19	0.000005313	19	100%
2018	30	0.000008533	30	100%
2019	26	0.000007491	26	100%
2020	22	0.000006586	22	100%
2021	14	0.000004132	14	100%
2022	24	0.000007094	24	100%
2023	18	0.000005436	18	100%
2024	14	0.000004206	14	100%

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