Given name · also Turkish
Meliha
“beautiful, graceful, elegant”
Meliha is a feminine given name from Ottoman Turkish, ultimately from Arabic. It is used in Turkish.
Original TurkishMelih
Meaning & origin
What it means
Meliha goes back to Arabic مَلِيحَة, meaning “beautiful, graceful, elegant.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Meliha comes from Ottoman Turkish, and ultimately from Arabic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Turkish usage, Meliha is a feminine form of MELIH.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2001. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Meliha through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 83
- 0 boys · 83 girls
- Most popular year
- 2020
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −66%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 378 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Meliha’s family of names
In Turkish usage, Meliha is a feminine form of MELIH.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Meliha
- Meliha İsmailoğluBosnian-Turkish volleyball player (born 1993)
- Meliha UlaşTurkish statesperson (1901–1942)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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