Melinna
- #13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births
- Peak · girls
- 2002 · 12 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 240since 1988
Melinna over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Melinna has never cracked the top 8,000 here.
Hover or use arrow keys to read values by year; click or press Enter to open that year.
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 | #13,208 | 6 |
| 2024 | — | |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 |
| 2021 | — | |
| 2020 | #11,090 | 8 |
| 2019 | #11,356 | 8 |
| 2018 | #8,617 | 12 |
| 2017 | #11,615 | 8 |
| 2016 | #8,393 | 13 |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 |
| 2014 | #8,485 | 13 |
| 2013 | #11,000 | 9 |
| 2012 | #11,257 | 9 |
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| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 |
| 2008 | #9,476 | 12 |
| 2007 | #10,129 | 11 |
| 2006 | #8,715 | 13 |
| 2005 | #10,921 | 9 |
| 2004 | #14,179 | 6 |
| 2003 | #12,408 | 7 |
| 2002 | #8,280 | 12 |
| 2001 | #12,056 | 7 |
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| 1999 | #11,385 | 7 |
| 1998 | #8,584 | 10 |
| 1997 | #9,802 | 8 |
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| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 |
| 1991 | #9,336 | 8 |
| 1990 | #9,247 | 8 |
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| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 |
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First appearance
1988
The first year at least five girls were named Melinna! It came in at #11,798, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1988–1989, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Melinna is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Melinna in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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Momentum · girls
Holding steady
- 2,118 spots since 2020 (#11,090 → #13,208)
- 1,274 spots since 2015 (#14,482 → #13,208)
Rise & fade · girls
14 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1988
- Peaked 2002 at #8,280 (12 births)
- Births halved by 2004, 2 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 136,309
- Highest: 1 in 136,309 girls born in 2016 were named Melinna (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 267,878 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #8,280 in 2002, was only 1 in 149,740 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2010s
- 34.6% of all girls named Melinna (83) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 5 | #11,798 (1988) | #11,798 |
| 1990s | 46 | #8,584 (1998) | #10,279 |
| 2000s | 82 | #8,280 (2002) | #11,495 |
| 2010s | 83 | #8,393 (2016) | #11,355 |
| 2020s | 24 | #11,090 (2020) | #13,700 |
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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