Melika
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 5 babies a year in England and Wales.
Melika by the numbers
In 2025, 5 babies in England and Wales were named Melika. In the US, 9 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 15 babies in 1989, making it a 1980s name.
What we can tell you about Melika
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Melika. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Melinahoney; form of Melissa or Melina486 in the US (2017)
- Meliaa form of Amelia; hardworking106 in the US (2017)
- Malikaqueen; royalty27 in England and Wales (2025)
- Melisabee; a spelling variant of Melissa47 in England and Wales (2025)
- Melikebeautiful angel or heavenly beauty8 in the US (2017)
- Melihahandsome graceful elegant feminine form6 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Melika
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