Melaina
- #10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births
- Peak · girls
- 2004 · 78 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,197since 1964
Melaina over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Melaina has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,107 | 9 |
| 2024 | #10,271 | 9 |
| 2023 | #8,989 | 11 |
| 2022 | #11,231 | 8 |
| 2021 | #11,146 | 8 |
| 2020 | #7,212 | 15 |
| 2019 | #6,176 | 19 |
| 2018 | #7,100 | 16 |
| 2017 | #6,808 | 17 |
| 2016 | #4,632 | 30 |
| 2015 | #6,036 | 21 |
| 2014 | #5,797 | 22 |
| 2013 | #4,645 | 30 |
| 2012 | #5,114 | 27 |
| 2011 | #5,063 | 27 |
| 2010 | #4,608 | 31 |
| 2009 | #4,482 | 33 |
| 2008 | #3,645 | 44 |
| 2007 | #4,131 | 37 |
| 2006 | #2,778 | 63 |
| 2005 | #2,935 | 55 |
| 2004 | #2,240 | 78 |
| 2003 | #3,655 | 38 |
| 2002 | #4,906 | 24 |
| 2001 | #3,864 | 33 |
| 2000 | #3,808 | 33 |
| 1999 | #4,576 | 24 |
| 1998 | #5,123 | 20 |
| 1997 | #6,163 | 15 |
| 1996 | #3,632 | 30 |
| 1995 | #3,670 | 29 |
| 1994 | #3,790 | 28 |
| 1993 | #3,776 | 28 |
| 1992 | #3,343 | 33 |
| 1991 | #4,329 | 23 |
| 1990 | #6,465 | 13 |
| 1989 | #9,681 | 7 |
| 1988 | #7,111 | 10 |
| 1987 | #8,778 | 7 |
| 1986 | #7,749 | 8 |
| 1985 | #6,457 | 10 |
| 1984 | #4,966 | 14 |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 |
| 1982 | #4,716 | 15 |
| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 |
| 1980 | #4,743 | 15 |
| 1979 | #6,189 | 10 |
| 1978 | #4,679 | 14 |
| 1977 | #5,213 | 12 |
| 1976 | #6,611 | 8 |
| 1975 | #5,984 | 9 |
| 1974 | #7,680 | 6 |
| 1973 | #5,191 | 10 |
| 1972 | #5,959 | 8 |
| 1971 | #5,136 | 10 |
| 1970 | #4,246 | 13 |
| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 |
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| 1967 | #4,982 | 8 |
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| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 |
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First appearance
1964
The first year at least five girls were named Melaina! It came in at #6,767, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1964–1966, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Melaina is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Melaina in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Melaina
Momentum · girls
Falling
- 164 spots since 2024 (#10,271 → #10,107)
- 2,895 spots since 2020 (#7,212 → #10,107)
Rise & fade · girls
40 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1964
- Peaked 2004 at #2,240 (78 births)
- Births halved by 2007, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 23,542
- Highest: 1 in 23,542 girls born in 2004 were named Melaina (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 178,585 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
- 36.6% of all girls named Melaina (438) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 18 | #4,982 (1967) | #6,407 |
| 1970s | 100 | #4,246 (1970) | #5,689 |
| 1980s | 98 | #4,716 (1982) | #7,260 |
| 1990s | 243 | #3,343 (1992) | #4,487 |
| 2000s | 438 | #2,240 (2004) | #3,644 |
| 2010s | 240 | #4,608 (2010) | #5,598 |
| 2020s | 60 | #7,212 (2020) | #9,826 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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