Melva

Where Melva comes from

The dictionaries list Melva as a given name — a female given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #738 among girls — 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 — more than any year before or since.
  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.