Melvina

Where Melvina comes from

Melvina hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #352 among girls — 21 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1885
    Peak, #303
    44 babies named Melvina — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1891
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #624.
  4. 1965
    Melvina Vulah born
    Liberian sprinter
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Melvina Vulah · Liberian sprinter, born 1965

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.