Melva

Where Melva comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Melva.

  • Vowel-ended
Melva through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #738 among girls, with 6 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1925
    Melva Noeline Philipson born
    New Zealand botanist
  3. 1937
    Peak, #371
    300 babies named Melva, its best rank.
  4. 1959
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #941.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Melva Noeline Philipson · New Zealand botanist, 1925–2015

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.