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Mel: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 16 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,894 in 1957.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,894 in 1957; #7,031 in 2025. About 59% of babies named Mel in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,031 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1957, at #2,894.
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Mel: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 16 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,894 in 1957 · most girls in one year: 30 (2004).
In 2025, 16 US girls were named Mel, making it the 7,031st most common girls’ name of the year, down 186 places from #6,845 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 17 girls named Mel in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,894, reached in 1957. The most girls given the name in a single year was 30, in 2004. For comparison, it was #12,623 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 11 US boys were named Mel, making it the 7,508th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,244 places from #8,752 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 9 boys named Mel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #689, reached in 1958. That year also had the most boys given the name: 120. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and #832 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mel in 118 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1902 with 5 babies. In all, 4,201 US babies have been given the name, 12% of them girls and 88% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 935 babies named Mel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 124 US girls were named Mel; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 18. In 2025 that was about 1 in 100,454 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Melvin (247,075 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Mele, Mehul and Miel are summarised on this page.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Mele (927), Mehul (297), Miel (224), Myel (45), Melle (6), Meile (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #7,031 | 11 | #7,508 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,845 | 9 | #8,752 |
| 2023 | 16 | #7,151 | 10 | #8,066 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,185 | 9 | #8,756 |
| 2021 | 10 | #10,063 | 9 | #8,603 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,447 | 7 | #10,231 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,612 | 7 | #10,453 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,327 | 10 | #7,967 |
| 2017 | — | — | 6 | #11,706 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,861 | 12 | #6,997 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,623 | — | — |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,329 | 6 | #11,660 |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,142 | 7 | #10,357 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,231 | 5 | #13,542 |
| 2011 | — | — | 10 | #7,890 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,907 | 11 | #7,413 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,224 | 7 | #10,611 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,396 | 13 | #6,644 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,366 | 14 | #6,154 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,704 | 18 | #4,984 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,198 | 11 | #6,947 |
| 2004 | 30 | #4,573 | 16 | #5,173 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,489 | 22 | #3,921 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,607 | 12 | #5,955 |
| 2001 | — | — | 12 | #5,901 |
| 2000 | — | — | 12 | #5,790 |
| 1999 | — | — | 17 | #4,269 |
| 1998 | — | — | 11 | #5,708 |
| 1997 | — | — | 12 | #5,167 |
| 1996 | — | — | 21 | #3,363 |
| 1995 | — | — | 14 | #4,434 |
| 1994 | — | — | 12 | #5,011 |
| 1993 | — | — | 13 | #4,606 |
| 1992 | — | — | 12 | #4,763 |
| 1991 | — | — | 13 | #4,395 |
| 1990 | — | — | 16 | #3,719 |
| 1989 | — | — | 17 | #3,400 |
| 1988 | — | — | 13 | #3,823 |
| 1987 | — | — | 13 | #3,662 |
| 1986 | — | — | 9 | #4,714 |
| 1985 | — | — | 10 | #4,239 |
| 1984 | — | — | 11 | #3,842 |
| 1983 | — | — | 11 | #3,784 |
| 1982 | — | — | 19 | #2,570 |
| 1981 | — | — | 14 | #3,155 |
| 1980 | — | — | 26 | #2,092 |
| 1979 | — | — | 16 | #2,858 |
| 1978 | — | — | 22 | #2,177 |
| 1977 | — | — | 17 | #2,621 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,269 | 31 | #1,696 |
| 1975 | — | — | 32 | #1,616 |
| 1974 | — | — | 27 | #1,772 |
| 1973 | — | — | 20 | #2,097 |
| 1972 | — | — | 35 | #1,446 |
| 1971 | — | — | 30 | #1,621 |
| 1970 | — | — | 36 | #1,409 |
| 1969 | — | — | 47 | #1,145 |
| 1968 | — | — | 35 | #1,305 |
| 1967 | — | — | 51 | #1,027 |
| 1966 | — | — | 63 | #925 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,265 | 65 | #924 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,865 | 82 | #845 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,694 | 64 | #944 |
| 1962 | 17 | #3,118 | 79 | #851 |
| 1961 | 13 | #3,728 | 102 | #765 |
| 1960 | 17 | #3,066 | 98 | #770 |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,752 | 94 | #792 |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,675 | 120 | #689 |
| 1957 | 17 | #2,894 | 90 | #792 |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,624 | 93 | #768 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,617 | 69 | #897 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,324 | 84 | #781 |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,402 | 94 | #741 |
| 1952 | 9 | #4,020 | 78 | #799 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,951 | 54 | #957 |
| 1950 | — | — | 67 | #832 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,529 | 70 | #819 |
| 1948 | — | — | 71 | #809 |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,112 | 98 | #701 |
| 1946 | — | — | 86 | #702 |
| 1945 | — | — | 67 | #751 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,382 | 59 | #822 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,129 | 71 | #776 |
| 1942 | — | — | 80 | #721 |
| 1941 | — | — | 62 | #805 |
| 1940 | — | — | 67 | #755 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,668 | 52 | #853 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,769 | 61 | #792 |
| 1937 | — | — | 43 | #966 |
| 1936 | — | — | 43 | #943 |
| 1935 | — | — | 26 | #1,343 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,757 | 40 | #1,035 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,648 | 20 | #1,574 |
| 1932 | — | — | 31 | #1,227 |
| 1931 | — | — | 21 | #1,572 |
| 1930 | — | — | 18 | #1,794 |
| 1929 | — | — | 11 | #2,549 |
| 1928 | — | — | 14 | #2,229 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,633 | 24 | #1,584 |
| 1926 | — | — | 25 | #1,500 |
| 1925 | — | — | 12 | #2,543 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,619 | 12 | #2,576 |
| 1923 | — | — | 13 | #2,407 |
| 1922 | — | — | 19 | #1,860 |
| 1921 | — | — | 7 | #3,758 |
| 1920 | — | — | 14 | #2,299 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,621 | 14 | #2,225 |
| 1918 | — | — | 16 | #2,043 |
| 1917 | — | — | 8 | #3,115 |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,237 | 13 | #2,222 |
| 1915 | — | — | 13 | #2,137 |
| 1914 | — | — | 10 | #2,215 |
| 1913 | — | — | 5 | #3,108 |
| 1912 | — | — | 5 | #2,783 |
| 1911 | — | — | 10 | #1,173 |
| 1904 | — | — | 7 | #1,031 |
| 1903 | — | — | 5 | #1,246 |
| 1902 | — | — | 5 | #1,252 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).