Melih is a boy's name of Arabic origin meaning “handsome.” In England & Wales it was given to 3 boys in 2024.
Melih belongs to the Muslim & Arabic and Turkish tradition. Its meaning — “handsome” — is the sense carried by its Arabic roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Melih first appears in Social Security records in 2007. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #11660 in 2016, and in 2024 0 babies received the name — 41 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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Melih means “handsome” in its Arabic roots. We check every meaning against published sources before it appears here.
Melih is a boy name. In England & Wales, 3 babies received the name in 2024.
Melih comes from the Muslim & Arabic and Turkish tradition.
Melih first appears in US records in 2007. Its best-ever ranking was #11660 in 2016, and 0 babies were given the name in 2024.
Melih is pronounced /me.lih/ (IPA).
Meaning and origin for this page were checked against this source. US popularity figures are from the Social Security Administration's public baby-names data. England & Wales figures are from the Office for National Statistics. If you spot an error, write to [email protected] — accuracy is the whole point of this site, and corrections are made fast.
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