Mela is a first name for girls.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Mela is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 girls have been named Mela. In the SmartGenius ranking, Mela is #3,587 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Mela.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Mela. Girls named Mela have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 1,722 Mela ranked higher than ever in 1905. By comparison, there have been 73 years in which the first name Mela has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2001. In general, parents name their daughters Mela only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves really special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Mela was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Mela continues to be a precious jewel: 31 newborns were named Mela that year, ranking #3,945 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Mela, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 8.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A and S are more common for girls' names.
With four letters, the name Mela is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all girls' names start with an M, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the girls’ names starting with M is Mary.
If your name is Mela and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Mela, you can simply say:
Mouse
Elephant
Lion
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Mela
Mela
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
M
E
L
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
M
E
L
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Mela sounds like this:
