Melani
#1,053 for girls in 2025, 234 births
- Peak · girls
- 2020 · 258 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,912since 1947
Melani over time
Rank among girls' names. Melani has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,053 | 234 |
| 2024 | #1,009 | 254 |
| 2023 | #1,088 | 227 |
| 2022 | #1,098 | 227 |
| 2021 | #1,112 | 222 |
| 2020 | #989 | 258 |
| 2019 | #1,073 | 235 |
| 2018 | #1,174 | 205 |
| 2017 | #1,392 | 165 |
| 2016 | #1,534 | 147 |
| 2015 | #1,743 | 120 |
| 2014 | #1,643 | 130 |
| 2013 | #1,953 | 101 |
| 2012 | #1,552 | 141 |
| 2011 | #1,857 | 108 |
| 2010 | #1,611 | 134 |
| 2009 | #1,584 | 142 |
| 2008 | #1,395 | 170 |
| 2007 | #1,445 | 163 |
| 2006 | #1,307 | 179 |
| 2005 | #1,609 | 126 |
| 2004 | #1,698 | 114 |
| 2003 | #1,652 | 116 |
| 2002 | #1,821 | 98 |
| 2001 | #2,259 | 71 |
| 2000 | #2,332 | 66 |
| 1999 | #2,640 | 53 |
| 1998 | #3,068 | 41 |
| 1997 | #3,547 | 32 |
| 1996 | #3,302 | 35 |
| 1995 | #3,969 | 26 |
| 1994 | #4,115 | 25 |
| 1993 | #3,987 | 26 |
| 1992 | #3,343 | 33 |
| 1991 | #2,738 | 43 |
| 1990 | #3,022 | 37 |
| 1989 | #2,618 | 43 |
| 1988 | #2,744 | 38 |
| 1987 | #2,657 | 37 |
| 1986 | #4,347 | 18 |
| 1985 | #4,455 | 17 |
| 1984 | #2,515 | 37 |
| 1983 | #2,910 | 29 |
| 1982 | #2,369 | 41 |
| 1981 | #2,928 | 30 |
| 1980 | #1,766 | 62 |
| 1979 | #2,020 | 50 |
| 1978 | #2,191 | 42 |
| 1977 | #1,922 | 51 |
| 1976 | #1,677 | 58 |
| 1975 | #1,672 | 57 |
| 1974 | #1,801 | 49 |
| 1973 | #1,755 | 50 |
| 1972 | #1,526 | 61 |
| 1971 | #1,560 | 62 |
| 1970 | #2,395 | 31 |
| 1969 | #2,023 | 38 |
| 1968 | #2,056 | 34 |
| 1967 | #1,905 | 38 |
| 1966 | #2,022 | 33 |
| 1965 | #2,110 | 31 |
| 1964 | #1,731 | 45 |
| 1963 | #1,815 | 41 |
| 1962 | #1,708 | 44 |
| 1961 | #1,955 | 35 |
| 1960 | #2,196 | 28 |
| 1959 | #1,951 | 33 |
| 1958 | #2,025 | 30 |
| 1957 | #3,150 | 14 |
| 1956 | #2,389 | 22 |
| 1955 | #2,839 | 16 |
| 1954 | #3,325 | 12 |
| 1953 | #2,812 | 15 |
| 1952 | #4,483 | 7 |
| 1951 | #3,714 | 9 |
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| 1949 | #3,892 | 8 |
| 1948 | #4,205 | 7 |
| 1947 | #5,295 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Melani! It came in at #5,295, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1950, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Melani is popular in 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#996 · 1 in 6,086
- Texas#1,123 · 1 in 7,196
- California#1,308 · 1 in 9,504
- Illinois#1,450 · 1 in 9,793
- Georgia#1,465 · 1 in 9,463
Best ever in a state: #296 in Nebraska, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #996 | 6 | 1 in 6,086 |
| Texas | #1,123 | 22 | 1 in 7,196 |
| California | #1,308 | 22 | 1 in 9,504 |
| Illinois | #1,450 | 6 | 1 in 9,793 |
| Georgia | #1,465 | 5 | 1 in 9,463 |
| New York | #1,490 | 9 | 1 in 10,252 |
| Florida | #1,988 | 5 | 1 in 15,925 |
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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 Melani
- 44 spots since 2024 (#1,009 → #1,053)
- 64 spots since 2020 (#989 → #1,053)
- 690 spots since 2015 (#1,743 → #1,053)
- Biggest jump: 84 spots in 2020 (#1,073 → #989)
- Biggest drop: 123 spots in 2021 (#989 → #1,112)
- Debuted 1947
- Peaked 2020 at #989 (258 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 2020
- Highest: 1 in 6,266 girls born in 2020 were named Melani (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 6,869 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 25.1% of all girls named Melani (1,486) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 20 | #3,892 (1949) | #4,464 |
| 1950s | 158 | #1,951 (1959) | #2,965 |
| 1960s | 367 | #1,708 (1962) | #1,952 |
| 1970s | 511 | #1,526 (1972) | #1,852 |
| 1980s | 352 | #1,766 (1980) | #2,931 |
| 1990s | 351 | #2,640 (1999) | #3,373 |
| 2000s | 1,245 | #1,307 (2006) | #1,710 |
| 2010s | 1,486 | #1,073 (2019) | #1,553 |
| 2020s | 1,422 | #989 (2020) | #1,058 |
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.
Melani in 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 12,490 of them was named Melani, which outranked 92.1% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,549Makinley142
- #1,549Miabella142
- #1,549Scout142
- #1,552Melani141
- #1,552Aven141
- #1,552Betty141
- #1,552Christian141
- #1,559Dalila140
- #1,559Elisha140
- #1,559Jordin140
Tied with 6 names at #1,552; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.