Melany
#398 for girls in 2025, 779 births · Last seen for boys in 2006 at #12,055
Given to girls >99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 779 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 17,379since 1942
Melany over time
Rank among girls' names. Melany has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #398 | 779 | — | |
| 2024 | #437 | 709 | — | |
| 2023 | #632 | 465 | — | |
| 2022 | #624 | 474 | — | |
| 2021 | #716 | 400 | — | |
| 2020 | #642 | 450 | — | |
| 2019 | #613 | 492 | — | |
| 2018 | #614 | 490 | — | |
| 2017 | #494 | 632 | — | |
| 2016 | #565 | 550 | — | |
| 2015 | #485 | 660 | — | |
| 2014 | #441 | 730 | — | |
| 2013 | #453 | 670 | — | |
| 2012 | #486 | 633 | — | |
| 2011 | #466 | 638 | — | |
| 2010 | #410 | 768 | — | |
| 2009 | #427 | 745 | — | |
| 2008 | #425 | 747 | — | |
| 2007 | #423 | 776 | — | |
| 2006 | #464 | 684 | #12,055 | 5 |
| 2005 | #538 | 537 | — | |
| 2004 | #585 | 481 | — | |
| 2003 | #575 | 482 | — | |
| 2002 | #686 | 365 | — | |
| 2001 | #891 | 257 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,060 | 196 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,231 | 153 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,597 | 102 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,456 | 113 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,656 | 92 | — | |
| 1995 | #2,516 | 50 | — | |
| 1994 | #2,167 | 62 | — | |
| 1993 | #2,012 | 69 | — | |
| 1992 | #2,033 | 67 | — | |
| 1991 | #2,388 | 53 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,847 | 77 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,925 | 67 | — | |
| 1988 | #2,369 | 46 | — | |
| 1987 | #2,915 | 33 | — | |
| 1986 | #2,300 | 44 | — | |
| 1985 | #2,317 | 43 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,192 | 45 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,858 | 56 | — | |
| 1982 | #2,050 | 50 | — | |
| 1981 | #2,085 | 49 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,552 | 75 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,731 | 63 | — | |
| 1978 | #2,191 | 42 | — | |
| 1977 | #1,801 | 56 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,936 | 46 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,780 | 52 | — | |
| 1974 | #2,029 | 41 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,647 | 55 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,607 | 56 | — | |
| 1971 | #1,937 | 44 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,828 | 48 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,685 | 51 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,519 | 56 | — | |
| 1967 | #2,272 | 28 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,982 | 34 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,950 | 35 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,836 | 41 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,683 | 46 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,858 | 38 | — | |
| 1961 | #1,568 | 52 | — | |
| 1960 | #1,405 | 61 | — | |
| 1959 | #1,435 | 56 | — | |
| 1958 | #1,985 | 31 | — | |
| 1957 | #2,347 | 23 | — | |
| 1956 | #1,637 | 42 | — | |
| 1955 | #1,839 | 33 | — | |
| 1954 | #2,695 | 17 | — | |
| 1953 | #2,595 | 17 | — | |
| 1952 | #2,806 | 15 | — | |
| 1951 | #3,482 | 10 | — | |
| 1950 | #3,235 | 11 | — | |
| 1949 | #2,999 | 12 | — | |
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| 1944 | #4,574 | 5 | — | |
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| 1942 | #4,124 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Melany! It came in at #4,124, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1943–1948, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Melany
- 39 spots since 2024 (#437 → #398)
- 244 spots since 2020 (#642 → #398)
- 87 spots since 2015 (#485 → #398)
- Biggest jump: 205 spots in 2002 (#891 → #686)
- Biggest drop: 120 spots in 2018 (#494 → #614)
- Debuted 1942
- Peaked 2025 at #398 (779 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 25 yrs · run 2001–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,063 girls born in 2025 were named Melany (0.05%)
- 36.0% of all girls named Melany (6,263) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 23 | #2,999 (1949) | #3,899 |
| 1950s | 255 | #1,435 (1959) | #2,406 |
| 1960s | 442 | #1,405 (1960) | #1,776 |
| 1970s | 503 | #1,607 (1972) | #1,849 |
| 1980s | 508 | #1,552 (1980) | #2,156 |
| 1990s | 838 | #1,231 (1999) | #1,890 |
| 2000s | 5,270 | #423 (2007) | #607 |
| 2010s | 6,263 | #410 (2010) | #503 |
| 2020s | 3,277 | #398 (2025) | #575 |
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.
Melany in 2006
Top girls' names in 2006
Top boys' names in 2006
More about 2006
girls
1,901,209 girls got a published name in 2006; 1 in 2,780 of them was named Melany, which outranked 97.7% of the 20,064 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- ↑ 8,571Bethzy#9,452 → #881
- ↑ 1,747Rihanna#2,278 → #531
- ↑ 965Yaretzi#1,803 → #838
- ↑ 921Betsy#1,668 → #747
- ↑ 612Evangeline#1,210 → #598
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,055,273 boys got a published name in 2006; 1 in 411,055 of them was named Melany, which outranked 14.2% of the 14,047 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,992 names at #12,055; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.