girls:
270 births since 1976
#5446 (5th percentile)
overall:
270 births since 1976
#7469 (3rd percentile)
The name Meleana is the #7,469 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 270 recorded births since 1976. This represents the 3.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,446 (4.7% percentile) for all time with 270 births since 1976.
Meleana first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1976 (first recorded for girls in 1976). Birth data for Meleana is available in 29 out of the 48 years between 1976 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Meleana reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 1.6% percentile (ranked #922) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.6% percentile). Despite a low point in 2019, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for girls. Currently, Meleana ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 27.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Meleana".
These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Meleana.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Meleana", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Meleana.
Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Meleana. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 35.0% confident that Meleana is pronounced as meh-lee-AH-nuh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is meh-LEE-uh-nuh, at 25.0% confidence, with 4 syllables.
If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Meleana? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Meleana. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Meleana, please vote using the thumbs up button.
Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like M EH0 L IY0 AA1 N AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
© 2025 NamePlay.org
Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker