Melora
- #11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births
- Peak · girls
- 1959 · 12 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 365since 1956
Melora over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Melora has never cracked the top 3,000 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 | #11,932 | 7 |
| 2024 | — | |
| 2023 | #13,462 | 6 |
| 2022 | #9,056 | 11 |
| 2021 | — | |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 |
| 2018 | — | |
| 2017 | — | |
| 2016 | #12,876 | 7 |
| 2015 | — | |
| 2014 | #13,069 | 7 |
| 2013 | #14,582 | 6 |
| 2012 | — | |
| 2011 | #14,824 | 6 |
| 2010 | #9,790 | 11 |
| 2009 | #9,379 | 12 |
| 2008 | #15,405 | 6 |
| 2007 | #11,630 | 9 |
| 2006 | #13,606 | 7 |
| 2005 | #13,010 | 7 |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 |
| 2003 | #11,325 | 8 |
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| 1995 | #8,766 | 9 |
| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 |
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| 1983 | #9,015 | 6 |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 |
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| 1979 | #9,010 | 6 |
| 1978 | #4,679 | 14 |
| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 |
| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 |
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 |
| 1973 | #5,580 | 9 |
| 1972 | #4,091 | 14 |
| 1971 | #4,311 | 13 |
| 1970 | #6,362 | 7 |
| 1969 | #5,456 | 8 |
| 1968 | #4,000 | 12 |
| 1967 | #4,982 | 8 |
| 1966 | #4,198 | 10 |
| 1965 | #4,202 | 10 |
| 1964 | #4,636 | 9 |
| 1963 | #3,635 | 13 |
| 1962 | #4,533 | 9 |
| 1961 | #3,793 | 12 |
| 1960 | #3,688 | 12 |
| 1959 | #3,619 | 12 |
| 1958 | #3,925 | 10 |
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| 1956 | #4,837 | 7 |
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First appearance
1956
The first year at least five girls were named Melora! It came in at #4,837, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1957, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Melora is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Melora in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Melora
Momentum · girls
Rising
- 3,156 spots since 2020 (#15,088 → #11,932)
Rise & fade · girls
3 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1956
- Peaked 1959 at #3,619 (12 births)
- Births halved by 1974, 15 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 108,660
- Highest: 1 in 108,660 girls born in 1972 were named Melora (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 229,610 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #3,619 in 1959, was only 1 in 168,622 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1960s
- 28.2% of all girls named Melora (103) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 29 | #3,619 (1959) | #4,127 |
| 1960s | 103 | #3,635 (1963) | #4,312 |
| 1970s | 83 | #4,091 (1972) | #7,081 |
| 1980s | 11 | #9,015 (1983) | #9,766 |
| 1990s | 14 | #8,766 (1995) | #11,098 |
| 2000s | 54 | #9,379 (2009) | #12,922 |
| 2010s | 42 | #9,790 (2010) | #13,447 |
| 2020s | 29 | #9,056 (2022) | #12,385 |
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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