Melena
- #10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births
- Peak · girls
- 1975 · 31 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,254since 1957
Melena over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Melena 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 | #10,917 | 8 |
| 2024 | #7,594 | 14 |
| 2023 | #9,616 | 10 |
| 2022 | #9,680 | 10 |
| 2021 | #8,024 | 13 |
| 2020 | #11,090 | 8 |
| 2019 | #9,112 | 11 |
| 2018 | #8,617 | 12 |
| 2017 | #8,776 | 12 |
| 2016 | #7,988 | 14 |
| 2015 | #8,447 | 13 |
| 2014 | #7,302 | 16 |
| 2013 | #7,372 | 16 |
| 2012 | #5,895 | 22 |
| 2011 | #6,148 | 21 |
| 2010 | #10,451 | 10 |
| 2009 | #5,891 | 23 |
| 2008 | #4,761 | 31 |
| 2007 | #3,918 | 40 |
| 2006 | #3,919 | 38 |
| 2005 | #3,942 | 36 |
| 2004 | #3,989 | 35 |
| 2003 | #3,869 | 35 |
| 2002 | #3,014 | 48 |
| 2001 | #2,808 | 52 |
| 2000 | #3,591 | 36 |
| 1999 | #2,935 | 45 |
| 1998 | #4,955 | 21 |
| 1997 | #5,417 | 18 |
| 1996 | #4,059 | 26 |
| 1995 | #3,585 | 30 |
| 1994 | #4,845 | 20 |
| 1993 | #4,100 | 25 |
| 1992 | #5,484 | 17 |
| 1991 | #5,181 | 18 |
| 1990 | #5,835 | 15 |
| 1989 | #6,160 | 13 |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 |
| 1987 | #6,788 | 10 |
| 1986 | #7,134 | 9 |
| 1985 | #5,678 | 12 |
| 1984 | #5,899 | 11 |
| 1983 | #4,686 | 15 |
| 1982 | #4,945 | 14 |
| 1981 | #4,963 | 14 |
| 1980 | #3,992 | 19 |
| 1979 | #3,777 | 20 |
| 1978 | #3,637 | 20 |
| 1977 | #3,366 | 22 |
| 1976 | #3,287 | 21 |
| 1975 | #2,516 | 31 |
| 1974 | #2,556 | 29 |
| 1973 | #3,122 | 21 |
| 1972 | #3,276 | 19 |
| 1971 | #3,062 | 22 |
| 1970 | #3,435 | 18 |
| 1969 | #3,774 | 14 |
| 1968 | #3,169 | 17 |
| 1967 | #3,340 | 15 |
| 1966 | #6,564 | 5 |
| 1965 | #4,831 | 8 |
| 1964 | #3,879 | 12 |
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| 1962 | #4,011 | 11 |
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First appearance
1957
The first year at least five girls were named Melena! It came in at #5,377, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1958–1961, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Melena is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Melena in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Melena
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
- 3,323 spots since 2024 (#7,594 → #10,917)
- 173 spots since 2020 (#11,090 → #10,917)
- 2,470 spots since 2015 (#8,447 → #10,917)
Rise & fade · girls
18 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1957
- Peaked 1975 at #2,516 (31 births)
- Births halved by 1981, 6 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 34,627
- Highest: 1 in 34,627 girls born in 2001 were named Melena (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 200,908 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,516 in 1975, was only 1 in 47,028 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2000s
- 29.8% of all girls named Melena (374) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 6 | #5,377 (1957) | #5,377 |
| 1960s | 82 | #3,169 (1968) | #4,224 |
| 1970s | 223 | #2,516 (1975) | #3,203 |
| 1980s | 124 | #3,992 (1980) | #5,949 |
| 1990s | 235 | #2,935 (1999) | #4,640 |
| 2000s | 374 | #2,808 (2001) | #3,970 |
| 2010s | 147 | #5,895 (2012) | #8,011 |
| 2020s | 63 | #7,594 (2024) | #9,487 |
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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