Melany
#398 for girls in 2025, 779 births · Last seen for boys in 2006 at #12,055
Given to girls >99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 779 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 17,379since 1942
Melany over time
Rank among girls' names. Melany has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #398 | 779 | — | |
| 2024 | #437 | 709 | — | |
| 2023 | #632 | 465 | — | |
| 2022 | #624 | 474 | — | |
| 2021 | #716 | 400 | — | |
| 2020 | #642 | 450 | — | |
| 2019 | #613 | 492 | — | |
| 2018 | #614 | 490 | — | |
| 2017 | #494 | 632 | — | |
| 2016 | #565 | 550 | — | |
| 2015 | #485 | 660 | — | |
| 2014 | #441 | 730 | — | |
| 2013 | #453 | 670 | — | |
| 2012 | #486 | 633 | — | |
| 2011 | #466 | 638 | — | |
| 2010 | #410 | 768 | — | |
| 2009 | #427 | 745 | — | |
| 2008 | #425 | 747 | — | |
| 2007 | #423 | 776 | — | |
| 2006 | #464 | 684 | #12,055 | 5 |
| 2005 | #538 | 537 | — | |
| 2004 | #585 | 481 | — | |
| 2003 | #575 | 482 | — | |
| 2002 | #686 | 365 | — | |
| 2001 | #891 | 257 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,060 | 196 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,231 | 153 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,597 | 102 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,456 | 113 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,656 | 92 | — | |
| 1995 | #2,516 | 50 | — | |
| 1994 | #2,167 | 62 | — | |
| 1993 | #2,012 | 69 | — | |
| 1992 | #2,033 | 67 | — | |
| 1991 | #2,388 | 53 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,847 | 77 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,925 | 67 | — | |
| 1988 | #2,369 | 46 | — | |
| 1987 | #2,915 | 33 | — | |
| 1986 | #2,300 | 44 | — | |
| 1985 | #2,317 | 43 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,192 | 45 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,858 | 56 | — | |
| 1982 | #2,050 | 50 | — | |
| 1981 | #2,085 | 49 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,552 | 75 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,731 | 63 | — | |
| 1978 | #2,191 | 42 | — | |
| 1977 | #1,801 | 56 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,936 | 46 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,780 | 52 | — | |
| 1974 | #2,029 | 41 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,647 | 55 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,607 | 56 | — | |
| 1971 | #1,937 | 44 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,828 | 48 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,685 | 51 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,519 | 56 | — | |
| 1967 | #2,272 | 28 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,982 | 34 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,950 | 35 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,836 | 41 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,683 | 46 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,858 | 38 | — | |
| 1961 | #1,568 | 52 | — | |
| 1960 | #1,405 | 61 | — | |
| 1959 | #1,435 | 56 | — | |
| 1958 | #1,985 | 31 | — | |
| 1957 | #2,347 | 23 | — | |
| 1956 | #1,637 | 42 | — | |
| 1955 | #1,839 | 33 | — | |
| 1954 | #2,695 | 17 | — | |
| 1953 | #2,595 | 17 | — | |
| 1952 | #2,806 | 15 | — | |
| 1951 | #3,482 | 10 | — | |
| 1950 | #3,235 | 11 | — | |
| 1949 | #2,999 | 12 | — | |
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| 1944 | #4,574 | 5 | — | |
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| 1942 | #4,124 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Melany! It came in at #4,124, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1943–1948, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Melany is popular in 2008
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Nevada#197 · 1 in 760
- Arizona#211 · 1 in 960
- District of Columbia#230 · 1 in 640
- Texas#236 · 1 in 1,126
- New Jersey#299 · 1 in 1,455
Best ever in a state: #147 in District of Columbia, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nevada | #197 | 16 | 1 in 760 |
| Arizona | #211 | 38 | 1 in 960 |
| District of Columbia | #230 | 5 | 1 in 640 |
| Texas | #236 | 149 | 1 in 1,126 |
| New Jersey | #299 | 27 | 1 in 1,455 |
| Florida | #302 | 53 | 1 in 1,624 |
| California | #308 | 153 | 1 in 1,499 |
| Illinois | #329 | 42 | 1 in 1,577 |
| North Carolina | #395 | 26 | 1 in 1,849 |
| Oklahoma | #452 | 9 | 1 in 1,938 |
| Georgia | #474 | 23 | 1 in 2,296 |
| Virginia | #481 | 16 | 1 in 2,351 |
| Tennessee | #508 | 13 | 1 in 2,476 |
| New York | #528 | 35 | 1 in 2,729 |
| Colorado | #535 | 10 | 1 in 2,450 |
| Oregon | #544 | 7 | 1 in 2,370 |
| Maryland | #566 | 9 | 1 in 2,808 |
| Arkansas | #580 | 5 | 1 in 2,445 |
| Minnesota | #585 | 8 | 1 in 3,220 |
| Kansas | #589 | 5 | 1 in 2,766 |
| South Carolina | #609 | 7 | 1 in 2,743 |
| Indiana | #625 | 10 | 1 in 3,251 |
| Utah | #657 | 6 | 1 in 3,296 |
| Wisconsin | #657 | 7 | 1 in 3,579 |
| Massachusetts | #730 | 6 | 1 in 4,537 |
| Pennsylvania | #748 | 12 | 1 in 4,612 |
| Washington | #943 | 6 | 1 in 5,358 |
| Michigan | #997 | 7 | 1 in 6,352 |
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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 Melany
- 39 spots since 2024 (#437 → #398)
- 244 spots since 2020 (#642 → #398)
- 87 spots since 2015 (#485 → #398)
- Biggest jump: 205 spots in 2002 (#891 → #686)
- Biggest drop: 120 spots in 2018 (#494 → #614)
- Debuted 1942
- Peaked 2025 at #398 (779 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 25 yrs · run 2001–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,063 girls born in 2025 were named Melany (0.05%)
- 36.0% of all girls named Melany (6,263) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 23 | #2,999 (1949) | #3,899 |
| 1950s | 255 | #1,435 (1959) | #2,406 |
| 1960s | 442 | #1,405 (1960) | #1,776 |
| 1970s | 503 | #1,607 (1972) | #1,849 |
| 1980s | 508 | #1,552 (1980) | #2,156 |
| 1990s | 838 | #1,231 (1999) | #1,890 |
| 2000s | 5,270 | #423 (2007) | #607 |
| 2010s | 6,263 | #410 (2010) | #503 |
| 2020s | 3,277 | #398 (2025) | #575 |
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.
Melany in 2008
Top girls' names in 2008
More about 2008
girls
1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 2,531 of them was named Melany, which outranked 97.9% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.