Meliyah
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — four syllables, given to 19 babies a year in the US.
Meliyah by the numbers
Meliyah was given to 19 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 35 babies in 2009, making it a 2000s name.
What we can tell you about Meliyah
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.
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