Mela
A girls’ name of Sanskrit origin, meaning gathering, fair, or assembly.
Mela by the numbers
In 2025, 10 babies in England and Wales were named Mela. In the US, 30 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 38 babies in 2014, making it a 2010s name.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Mela. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Mela
Names that are said the same way as Mela, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
Other names that mean beauty
Like Mela, each of these has beauty in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Laylanight, dark beauty6,283 in the US (2017)
- Bellabeautiful; a diminutive of Isabella4,616 in the US (2017)
- Finleyfair-haired warrior1,733 in England and Wales (2025)
- Mackenzieson of the fair one; surname used as given name2,976 in the US (2017)
- Jadejade stone; symbol of virtue and beauty2,765 in the US (2017)
- Annabellegrace and beauty combined form2,601 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Mela
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