Mella

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Mella: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Mella: Recorded since 1969, with a gap of 26 years, it reached #389 in 1972, and it stood at #5,927 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
11times a registrar ranked it
57years from first to last
#389highest recorded position
4groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Mella's record

Absent from every published list for 26 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2023–2025

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2023	#4709
2025	#5927

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 9 of the 53 years from 1969 to 2021.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1969–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1969
First recorded at #443 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1969 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1969–2021
Highest recorded position: #389 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 1972 (recorded 1969–2021).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #5927 among girls in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Girls

Mella appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Girls, which has ranked it in 9 years beginning in 1969, and has registered 34 births with the name.

Mella across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Mella's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#443 (1969)	#389 (1972)	#764 (2021)	9 of 53	34 (1969–2021)	5 (1972)
England and Wales · Girls	#4709 (2023)	#4709 (2023)	#5927 (2025)	2 of 3	7 (2023–2025)	4 (2023)

Mella by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Mella in Republic of Ireland · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1960s	3	1 of 10	3
1970s	5	1 of 10	5
1990s	3	1 of 10	3
2000s	7	2 of 10	4
2010s	12	3 of 10	4
2020s	4	1 of 10	4

See the names Republic of Irelandhas recorded the most births with →

Mella appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1969 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #389 in Republic of Ireland in 1972.

Mella's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2025	England and Wales	female	#5927	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#4709	4	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#764	4	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#768	4	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#798	4	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#758	4	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#893	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#705	4	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	female	#528	3	High	Verified
1972	Republic of Ireland	female	#389	5	High	Verified
1969	Republic of Ireland	female	#443	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

Where Mella is officially recorded

2 official registrars have recorded Mella, between 1969 and 2025, in 11 of those 57 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
Republic of Ireland	1969–2021	9	#389 in 1972
England and Wales	2023–2025	2	#4709 in 2023

Its high point came 51 years earlier in Republic of Ireland (1972) than in England and Wales (2023).

No registrar recorded it for 26 years after 1972; it appears again in 1999.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1969 and 2025, ranked in 11 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #389, first reached in 1972.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 5 births, registered in Republic of Ireland in 1972.

Its record falls into 8 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 26 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2023, and 54 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

6decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 6 decades →
4 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
8separate stretches the record falls into6 to 9 separate stretches →
26 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period20 or more years missing →
#5,927position in 2025, its most recent recorded year
54 yearsyears between the first and last registrar to record itAcross 41 years or more →
5births registered in its largest year, 1972Under 25 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Melita · #660, 27y
Mellisa · #389, 28y
Mellissa · #331, 31y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Coady · #390, 15y
Cabhan · #387, 10y
Delilah-Rose · #391, 14y
Kadyn · #387, 9y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Rona · #389, 45y
Estelle · #391, 42y
Odette · #391, 29y
Adel · #386, 49y

Mella was ranked #389 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 1972. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Adeline#389
Aedin#389
Beverley#389
Bridie#389
Ailis#428
Aiveen#428
Alyson#428
Anastatia#428

Mella and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,577 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Mella without appearing here.

Mella moved ahead of

Lorraine
In 2009 they stood at #893 and #893 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2010 that had become #758 and #910.
Monica
In 2009 they stood at #893 and #742 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2010 that had become #758 and #910.
Joanne
In 2011 they stood at #798 and #612 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2012 that had become #768 and #907.
Judith
In 2011 they stood at #798 and #798 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2012 that had become #768 and #907.

Moved ahead of Mella

Maddison
In 2008 they stood at #705 and #842 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2009 that had become #893 and #379.
Zoe
In 1998 they stood at #389 and #471 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1999 that had become #528 and #66.
Heidi
In 2006 they stood at #389 and #471 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2007 that had become #705 and #251.
Sadie
In 2006 they stood at #389 and #471 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2007 that had become #705 and #267.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1969 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #389 in Republic of Ireland in 1972. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Mella

Mella at a glance

What stands out in Mella's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Mella across 2 official records

Mella by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Mella appears in

Popularity data

Where Mella is officially recorded

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Mella

Mella and the names beside it

Mella moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Mella

Mella at a glance

What stands out in Mella's record

Mella across 2 official records

Mella by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Mella appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Mella

Mella and the names beside it

Mella moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Mella