Mele
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Meaning
song
How popular is Mele around the world?
In the United States, 88 babies were named Mele between 2020 and 2025. In New Zealand, 13 girls named Mele were registered in 2025.
Mele is on the official records of the United States and New Zealand.
United States
1 in 250,000
In the United States, 88 babies were named Mele between 2020 and 2025.
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Mele has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
New Zealand
1 in 4,400
In New Zealand, 13 girls named Mele were registered in 2025.
share of that year’s name registrations
First given names from New Zealand birth registrations, grouped by registration year; any name under 10 in a year is excluded at source. Shares divide by Stats NZ’s count of births registered to mothers living in New Zealand, under 1% below the registry’s own count. Source: Department of Internal Affairs (New Zealand), baby name popularity over time
Argentina
last on record 2019
Mele is not on the 2024 record for Argentina, where small counts are withheld at source.
The count never rose above 4 in a year, too few to chart.
Given-name components of births in Argentina 2012–2024; national cells are lower bounds and no sex split is published. Source: RENAPER (Argentina), Dirección Nacional de Población, given names 2012-2024
Not on the record in Spain, Mexico City, Puerto Rico, England and Wales, Canada, Ireland, Scotland and Poland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the Montevideo record for 1940 to 2011: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the South Australia record for 1944 to 2017: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the Austria record for 1984 to 2025: Statistik Austria publishes every first name down to a single birth, so this name was not given there in those years (before 2010 the record covers babies with Austrian citizenship only). Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.
When you meet Mele
Most people given the name Mele in the United States were born between 1980 and 2019. The Mele you meet today is most often in her 20s or 30s.
Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.
Keep exploring
The Mele deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Mele truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Mele fits with your family’s names and surname.
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