Melani

Where Melani comes from

Melani hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1947
    First appearance
    #5,295 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1973
    Melani Olivares born
    Spanish actress
  3. 2007
    Melani García born
    Spanish singer
  4. 2020
    Peak, #989
    258 babies named Melani — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Melani García · Spanish singer, born 2007
  • Melani Olivares · Spanish actress, born 1973
  • Melani Budianta · Indonesian literature expert and lecturer, born 1954
  • Melani Matavao · Samoan rugby union and sevens player, born 1995
  • Melani Putri · Indonesian rower, born 2000

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.