Melania
#1,170 for girls in 2025, 198 births
- Peak · girls
- 2017 · 283 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,573since 1913
Melania over time
Rank among girls' names. Melania has never cracked the top 900 here.
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 | #1,170 | 198 |
| 2024 | #1,579 | 133 |
| 2023 | #1,792 | 113 |
| 2022 | #1,497 | 145 |
| 2021 | #1,410 | 154 |
| 2020 | #1,198 | 192 |
| 2019 | #1,145 | 210 |
| 2018 | #1,083 | 233 |
| 2017 | #932 | 283 |
| 2016 | #1,649 | 131 |
| 2015 | #2,103 | 92 |
| 2014 | #2,351 | 78 |
| 2013 | #2,002 | 97 |
| 2012 | #1,955 | 100 |
| 2011 | #1,982 | 99 |
| 2010 | #2,313 | 82 |
| 2009 | #2,568 | 72 |
| 2008 | #2,397 | 80 |
| 2007 | #2,394 | 79 |
| 2006 | #1,651 | 128 |
| 2005 | #1,624 | 124 |
| 2004 | #4,492 | 30 |
| 2003 | #10,425 | 9 |
| 2002 | #7,444 | 14 |
| 2001 | #5,822 | 19 |
| 2000 | #6,487 | 16 |
| 1999 | #7,239 | 13 |
| 1998 | #7,104 | 13 |
| 1997 | #6,844 | 13 |
| 1996 | #4,883 | 20 |
| 1995 | #7,041 | 12 |
| 1994 | #5,713 | 16 |
| 1993 | #7,498 | 11 |
| 1992 | #6,008 | 15 |
| 1991 | #5,004 | 19 |
| 1990 | #4,868 | 19 |
| 1989 | #8,037 | 9 |
| 1988 | #5,321 | 15 |
| 1987 | #5,613 | 13 |
| 1986 | #7,134 | 9 |
| 1985 | #3,852 | 21 |
| 1984 | #6,291 | 10 |
| 1983 | #6,705 | 9 |
| 1982 | #5,534 | 12 |
| 1981 | #4,162 | 18 |
| 1980 | #4,148 | 18 |
| 1979 | #6,189 | 10 |
| 1978 | #3,924 | 18 |
| 1977 | #6,340 | 9 |
| 1976 | #4,905 | 12 |
| 1975 | #4,370 | 14 |
| 1974 | #4,041 | 15 |
| 1973 | #4,871 | 11 |
| 1972 | #4,793 | 11 |
| 1971 | #5,543 | 9 |
| 1970 | #5,061 | 10 |
| 1969 | #4,418 | 11 |
| 1968 | #5,147 | 8 |
| 1967 | #4,625 | 9 |
| 1966 | #3,740 | 12 |
| 1965 | #4,202 | 10 |
| 1964 | #4,096 | 11 |
| 1963 | #4,896 | 8 |
| 1962 | #5,293 | 7 |
| 1961 | #5,851 | 6 |
| 1960 | #5,696 | 6 |
| 1959 | #4,625 | 8 |
| 1958 | — | |
| 1957 | #3,696 | 11 |
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| 1952 | #4,908 | 6 |
| 1951 | #3,714 | 9 |
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| 1940 | #3,863 | 6 |
| 1939 | #3,782 | 6 |
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| 1931 | #4,331 | 5 |
| 1930 | — | |
| 1929 | #3,394 | 8 |
| 1928 | #4,725 | 5 |
| 1927 | #3,284 | 9 |
| 1926 | #3,873 | 7 |
| 1925 | — | |
| 1924 | #3,144 | 10 |
| 1923 | — | |
| 1922 | #4,445 | 6 |
| 1921 | #3,400 | 9 |
| 1920 | #4,398 | 6 |
| 1919 | #4,814 | 5 |
| 1918 | #3,244 | 9 |
| 1917 | #2,552 | 12 |
| 1916 | #3,258 | 8 |
| 1915 | #2,900 | 9 |
| 1914 | #2,638 | 8 |
| 1913 | #2,331 | 8 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Melania! It came in at #2,331, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1923, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Melania
- 409 spots since 2024 (#1,579 → #1,170)
- 28 spots since 2020 (#1,198 → #1,170)
- 933 spots since 2015 (#2,103 → #1,170)
- Biggest jump: 717 spots in 2017 (#1,649 → #932)
- Biggest drop: 151 spots in 2018 (#932 → #1,083)
- Debuted 1913
- Peaked 2017 at #932 (283 births)
- Births halved by 2023, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 2017
- Highest: 1 in 6,101 girls born in 2017 were named Melania (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 8,118 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 39.3% of all girls named Melania (1,405) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 59 | #2,331 (1913) | #3,105 |
| 1920s | 60 | #3,144 (1924) | #3,833 |
| 1930s | 11 | #3,782 (1939) | #4,057 |
| 1940s | 6 | #3,863 (1940) | #3,863 |
| 1950s | 34 | #3,696 (1957) | #4,236 |
| 1960s | 88 | #3,740 (1966) | #4,796 |
| 1970s | 119 | #3,924 (1978) | #5,004 |
| 1980s | 134 | #3,852 (1985) | #5,680 |
| 1990s | 151 | #4,868 (1990) | #6,220 |
| 2000s | 571 | #1,624 (2005) | #4,530 |
| 2010s | 1,405 | #932 (2017) | #1,752 |
| 2020s | 935 | #1,170 (2025) | #1,441 |
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.
Melania in 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
More about 2020
girls
1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 8,420 of them was named Melania, which outranked 93.2% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).