Melania

Where Melania comes from

The dictionaries list Melania 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. 1913
    First appearance
    #2,331 among girls, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1970
    Melania Trump born
    First Lady of the United States (2017–2021; since 2025)
  3. 1983
    Melania Gabbiadini born
    Italian footballer
  4. 2017
    Peak, #932
    283 babies named Melania — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2023
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,792.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Melania Trump · First Lady of the United States (2017–2021; since 2025), born 1970
  • Melania Gabbiadini · Italian footballer, born 1983
  • Melania Mazzucco · Italian writer, born 1966
  • Melania Dalla Costa · Italian actress, born 1988
  • Melania Alvarez · Canadian mathematician

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.