Melaine
Last seen for girls in 2022 at #12,243
- Peak · girls
- 1972 · 73 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,396since 1925
Melaine over time
Rank among girls' names. Melaine has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
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 | — | |
| 2024 | — | |
| 2023 | — | |
| 2022 | #12,243 | 7 |
| 2021 | — | |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 |
| 2019 | #9,736 | 10 |
| 2018 | #10,545 | 9 |
| 2017 | #11,615 | 8 |
| 2016 | #10,859 | 9 |
| 2015 | #8,931 | 12 |
| 2014 | #10,955 | 9 |
| 2013 | #7,748 | 15 |
| 2012 | #7,456 | 16 |
| 2011 | #10,374 | 10 |
| 2010 | #9,790 | 11 |
| 2009 | #10,679 | 10 |
| 2008 | #7,742 | 16 |
| 2007 | #10,129 | 11 |
| 2006 | #9,286 | 12 |
| 2005 | #8,330 | 13 |
| 2004 | #8,259 | 13 |
| 2003 | #6,576 | 17 |
| 2002 | #4,906 | 24 |
| 2001 | #6,619 | 16 |
| 2000 | #6,208 | 17 |
| 1999 | #4,718 | 23 |
| 1998 | #5,583 | 18 |
| 1997 | #4,239 | 25 |
| 1996 | #5,065 | 19 |
| 1995 | #5,221 | 18 |
| 1994 | #3,892 | 27 |
| 1993 | #3,506 | 31 |
| 1992 | #2,777 | 43 |
| 1991 | #2,660 | 45 |
| 1990 | #2,492 | 48 |
| 1989 | #2,442 | 47 |
| 1988 | #2,131 | 54 |
| 1987 | #2,236 | 48 |
| 1986 | #1,770 | 65 |
| 1985 | #1,906 | 58 |
| 1984 | #1,837 | 58 |
| 1983 | #1,798 | 59 |
| 1982 | #1,621 | 71 |
| 1981 | #1,455 | 83 |
| 1980 | #1,482 | 81 |
| 1979 | #1,753 | 62 |
| 1978 | #1,893 | 52 |
| 1977 | #1,451 | 76 |
| 1976 | #1,585 | 63 |
| 1975 | #1,544 | 65 |
| 1974 | #1,486 | 66 |
| 1973 | #1,548 | 60 |
| 1972 | #1,364 | 73 |
| 1971 | #1,586 | 60 |
| 1970 | #1,653 | 56 |
| 1969 | #1,685 | 51 |
| 1968 | #1,607 | 51 |
| 1967 | #2,012 | 34 |
| 1966 | #1,982 | 34 |
| 1965 | #2,411 | 25 |
| 1964 | #1,836 | 41 |
| 1963 | #2,061 | 33 |
| 1962 | #2,113 | 31 |
| 1961 | #2,752 | 20 |
| 1960 | #2,369 | 25 |
| 1959 | #2,339 | 24 |
| 1958 | #2,449 | 22 |
| 1957 | #2,416 | 22 |
| 1956 | #2,103 | 27 |
| 1955 | #2,280 | 23 |
| 1954 | #3,325 | 12 |
| 1953 | #4,595 | 7 |
| 1952 | #2,266 | 21 |
| 1951 | #2,937 | 13 |
| 1950 | — | |
| 1949 | #3,892 | 8 |
| 1948 | #3,350 | 10 |
| 1947 | #3,448 | 10 |
| 1946 | #4,960 | 5 |
| 1945 | #3,676 | 7 |
| 1944 | — | |
| 1943 | #4,196 | 6 |
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| 1928 | #4,725 | 5 |
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| 1925 | #4,973 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Melaine! It came in at #4,973, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1925–1942, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Melaine is popular in 1974
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#1,291 · 1 in 15,907
- California#1,654 · 1 in 22,770
Best ever in a state: #498 in Colorado, 1981.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | #1,291 | 6 | 1 in 15,907 |
| California | #1,654 | 6 | 1 in 22,770 |
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| Alaska | — | — | — |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Melaine
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2022
- Debuted 1925
- Peaked 1972 at #1,364 (73 births)
- Births halved by 1993, 21 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 20,097 girls born in 1981 were named Melaine (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 234,304 girls born in 2022 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,364 in 1972, was only 1 in 20,839 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 26.4% of all girls named Melaine (633) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 10 | #4,725 (1928) | #4,849 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 46 | #3,350 (1948) | #3,920 |
| 1950s | 171 | #2,103 (1956) | #2,746 |
| 1960s | 345 | #1,607 (1968) | #2,083 |
| 1970s | 633 | #1,364 (1972) | #1,586 |
| 1980s | 624 | #1,455 (1981) | #1,868 |
| 1990s | 297 | #2,492 (1990) | #4,015 |
| 2000s | 149 | #4,906 (2002) | #7,873 |
| 2010s | 109 | #7,456 (2012) | #9,801 |
| 2020s | 12 | #12,243 (2022) | #13,666 |
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.
Melaine in 1974
Top girls' names in 1974
More about 1974
girls
1,467,534 girls got a published name in 1974; 1 in 22,235 of them was named Melaine, which outranked 85.5% of the 10,247 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,473Shakira67
- #1,473Tameika67
- #1,473Tonda67
- #1,486Melaine66
- #1,486Anglea66
- #1,486Chantal66
- #1,486Coretta66
- #1,499Annalisa65
- #1,499Ayesha65
- #1,499Deeann65
Tied with 12 names at #1,486; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.