Meaning not yet researched.
Melania: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 198 in 2025. Its best rank was #934 in 2017.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #934 in 2017; #1,172 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Melania in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,172 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2017, at #934.
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Melania: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 198 girls in 2025. Peak: #934 in 2017 · most girls in one year: 283 (2017).
In 2025, 198 US girls were named Melania, making it the 1,172nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 412 places from #1,584 in 2024. That is 65 more than the 133 girls named Melania in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #934, reached in 2017. That year also had the most girls given the name: 283. For comparison, it was #2,111 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Melania in 88 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1913 with 8 babies. In all, 3,573 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,405 babies named Melania.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,792 US girls were named Melania; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 283. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,118 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Melania ranked highest in Illinois in 2025, at #537 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Melanie (263,254 babies since 1880), Melani (5,912 babies since 1880), Milania (3,424 babies since 1880) and Melany (17,384 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Italian and Polish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
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.
No nicknames listed for Melania in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 39 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 19 | #537 | #1,251 |
| New Jersey | 13 | #601 | #1,134 |
| New York | 23 | #721 | #838 |
| Washington | 8 | #787 | — |
| Florida | 19 | #853 | #2,009 |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #985 | — |
| Michigan | 7 | #1,027 | — |
| California | 26 | #1,043 | #1,789 |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,084 | — |
| Texas | 21 | #1,251 | #2,530 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,489 | — |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,628 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 198 | #1,172 | — | — |
| 2024 | 133 | #1,584 | — | — |
| 2023 | 113 | #1,799 | — | — |
| 2022 | 145 | #1,501 | — | — |
| 2021 | 154 | #1,414 | — | — |
| 2020 | 192 | #1,198 | — | — |
| 2019 | 210 | #1,148 | — | — |
| 2018 | 233 | #1,084 | — | — |
| 2017 | 283 | #934 | — | — |
| 2016 | 131 | #1,653 | — | — |
| 2015 | 92 | #2,111 | — | — |
| 2014 | 78 | #2,365 | — | — |
| 2013 | 97 | #2,010 | — | — |
| 2012 | 100 | #1,967 | — | — |
| 2011 | 99 | #1,996 | — | — |
| 2010 | 82 | #2,334 | — | — |
| 2009 | 72 | #2,588 | — | — |
| 2008 | 80 | #2,409 | — | — |
| 2007 | 79 | #2,415 | — | — |
| 2006 | 128 | #1,659 | — | — |
| 2005 | 124 | #1,628 | — | — |
| 2004 | 30 | #4,574 | — | — |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,006 | — | — |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,695 | — | — |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,994 | — | — |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,698 | — | — |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,550 | — | — |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,391 | — | — |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,140 | — | — |
| 1996 | 20 | #4,993 | — | — |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,367 | — | — |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,892 | — | — |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,870 | — | — |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,198 | — | — |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,116 | — | — |
| 1990 | 19 | #4,993 | — | — |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,492 | — | — |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,500 | — | — |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,817 | — | — |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,520 | — | — |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,938 | — | — |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,598 | — | — |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,085 | — | — |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,771 | — | — |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,273 | — | — |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,246 | — | — |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,517 | — | — |
| 1978 | 18 | #4,018 | — | — |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,671 | — | — |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,084 | — | — |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,496 | — | — |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,159 | — | — |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,081 | — | — |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,980 | — | — |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,842 | — | — |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,286 | — | — |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,625 | — | — |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,471 | — | — |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,851 | — | — |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,876 | — | — |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,403 | — | — |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,260 | — | — |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,154 | — | — |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,654 | — | — |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,330 | — | — |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,151 | — | — |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,892 | — | — |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,856 | — | — |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,334 | — | — |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,899 | — | — |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,192 | — | — |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,107 | — | — |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,762 | — | — |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,589 | — | — |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,196 | — | — |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,473 | — | — |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,154 | — | — |
| 1924 | 10 | #3,294 | — | — |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,836 | — | — |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,583 | — | — |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,767 | — | — |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,321 | — | — |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,423 | — | — |
| 1917 | 12 | #2,653 | — | — |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,457 | — | — |
| 1915 | 9 | #3,054 | — | — |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,791 | — | — |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,472 | — | — |
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).