Melonie
#10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births
- Peak · girls
- 1973 · 176 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,462since 1944
Melonie over time
Rank among girls' names. Melonie has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,107 | 9 |
| 2024 | #7,967 | 13 |
| 2023 | #7,640 | 14 |
| 2022 | #7,281 | 15 |
| 2021 | #4,964 | 26 |
| 2020 | #4,548 | 29 |
| 2019 | #5,163 | 25 |
| 2018 | #9,806 | 10 |
| 2017 | #5,338 | 24 |
| 2016 | #4,632 | 30 |
| 2015 | #4,584 | 30 |
| 2014 | #5,310 | 25 |
| 2013 | #3,918 | 38 |
| 2012 | #3,644 | 43 |
| 2011 | #4,681 | 30 |
| 2010 | #3,360 | 48 |
| 2009 | #4,107 | 37 |
| 2008 | #3,710 | 43 |
| 2007 | #4,050 | 38 |
| 2006 | #3,176 | 52 |
| 2005 | #3,404 | 44 |
| 2004 | #3,819 | 37 |
| 2003 | #3,731 | 37 |
| 2002 | #3,283 | 42 |
| 2001 | #3,703 | 35 |
| 2000 | #3,808 | 33 |
| 1999 | #3,099 | 42 |
| 1998 | #4,142 | 27 |
| 1997 | #3,448 | 33 |
| 1996 | #3,028 | 39 |
| 1995 | #2,687 | 45 |
| 1994 | #3,098 | 37 |
| 1993 | #2,451 | 51 |
| 1992 | #2,513 | 50 |
| 1991 | #2,136 | 62 |
| 1990 | #2,068 | 64 |
| 1989 | #1,943 | 66 |
| 1988 | #2,251 | 50 |
| 1987 | #2,156 | 50 |
| 1986 | #1,638 | 72 |
| 1985 | #1,429 | 88 |
| 1984 | #1,343 | 90 |
| 1983 | #1,266 | 98 |
| 1982 | #1,193 | 114 |
| 1981 | #1,172 | 113 |
| 1980 | #1,034 | 138 |
| 1979 | #1,169 | 113 |
| 1978 | #924 | 153 |
| 1977 | #1,045 | 126 |
| 1976 | #917 | 143 |
| 1975 | #929 | 138 |
| 1974 | #887 | 145 |
| 1973 | #763 | 176 |
| 1972 | #830 | 159 |
| 1971 | #812 | 171 |
| 1970 | #910 | 144 |
| 1969 | #861 | 146 |
| 1968 | #868 | 139 |
| 1967 | #914 | 125 |
| 1966 | #972 | 110 |
| 1965 | #1,055 | 99 |
| 1964 | #917 | 130 |
| 1963 | #823 | 160 |
| 1962 | #879 | 143 |
| 1961 | #1,193 | 86 |
| 1960 | #1,009 | 113 |
| 1959 | #1,149 | 86 |
| 1958 | #1,221 | 76 |
| 1957 | #1,228 | 73 |
| 1956 | #1,151 | 81 |
| 1955 | #1,031 | 95 |
| 1954 | #1,481 | 46 |
| 1953 | #2,122 | 24 |
| 1952 | #1,820 | 30 |
| 1951 | #1,885 | 27 |
| 1950 | #2,185 | 20 |
| 1949 | #2,620 | 15 |
| 1948 | #3,883 | 8 |
| 1947 | #3,240 | 11 |
| 1946 | #3,994 | 7 |
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| 1944 | #3,378 | 8 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Melonie! It came in at #3,378, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1945, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Melonie is popular in 1979
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Virginia#566 · 1 in 4,864
- Missouri#581 · 1 in 5,382
- Ohio#711 · 1 in 8,010
- North Carolina#722 · 1 in 6,572
- Pennsylvania#910 · 1 in 11,401
Best ever in a state: #337 in Utah, 1967.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Virginia | #566 | 6 | 1 in 4,864 |
| Missouri | #581 | 6 | 1 in 5,382 |
| Ohio | #711 | 9 | 1 in 8,010 |
| North Carolina | #722 | 5 | 1 in 6,572 |
| Pennsylvania | #910 | 6 | 1 in 11,401 |
| Texas | #1,092 | 10 | 1 in 11,111 |
| Illinois | #1,280 | 5 | 1 in 14,939 |
| California | #1,418 | 10 | 1 in 16,333 |
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See more about Melonie
- 2,140 spots since 2024 (#7,967 → #10,107)
- 5,559 spots since 2020 (#4,548 → #10,107)
- 5,523 spots since 2015 (#4,584 → #10,107)
- Biggest jump: 314 spots in 1962 (#1,193 → #879)
- Biggest drop: 245 spots in 1979 (#924 → #1,169)
- Debuted 1944
- Peaked 1973 at #763 (176 births)
- Births halved by 1985, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 15 yrs · run 1966–1976
- Highest: 1 in 8,285 girls born in 1973 were named Melonie (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 178,585 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 26.9% of all girls named Melonie (1,468) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1940s | 49 | #2,620 (1949) | #3,423 |
| 1950s | 558 | #1,031 (1955) | #1,527 |
| 1960s | 1,251 | #823 (1963) | #949 |
| 1970s | 1,468 | #763 (1973) | #919 |
| 1980s | 879 | #1,034 (1980) | #1,543 |
| 1990s | 450 | #2,068 (1990) | #2,867 |
| 2000s | 398 | #3,176 (2006) | #3,679 |
| 2010s | 303 | #3,360 (2010) | #5,044 |
| 2020s | 106 | #4,548 (2020) | #7,085 |
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.
Melonie in 1979
Top girls' names in 1979
More about 1979
girls
1,605,268 girls got a published name in 1979; 1 in 14,206 of them was named Melonie, which outranked 90.2% of the 11,972 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,161Somer114
- #1,161Temeka114
- #1,161Thea114
- #1,169Melonie113
- #1,169Coleen113
- #1,169Kenyetta113
- #1,169Lolita113
- #1,178Corinna112
- #1,178Geraldine112
- #1,178Hazel112
Tied with 8 names at #1,169; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.