Meaning not yet researched.
Melanie: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 2,074 in 2025. Its best rank was #42 in 1972.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #42 in 1972; #142 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Melanie in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#142 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1972, at #42.
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Melanie: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 2,074 girls in 2025. Peak: #42 in 1972 · most girls in one year: 6,296 (1972).
In 2025, 2,074 US girls were named Melanie, making it the 142nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 20 places from #122 in 2024. That is 179 fewer than the 2,253 girls named Melanie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #42, reached in 1972. That year also had the most girls given the name: 6,296. For comparison, it was #81 in 2015 and #237 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Melanie in 136 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1886 with 8 babies. In all, 263,254 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 53,498 babies named Melanie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 25,509 US girls were named Melanie; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 3,490. In 2025 that was about 1 in 775 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Melanie ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #76 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 5 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Melany (17,384 babies since 1880), Melani (5,912 babies since 1880), Melonie (5,462 babies since 1880) and Melania (3,573 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Melaney, Melanee and Mellanie are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Mellie.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Melaney (1,259), Melanee (1,222), Mellanie (1,117), Melenie (648), Mylani (508), Meloni (391), Melonee (349), Melanye (304), Milanie (255), Melanni (140), Mellonie (122), Melainie (107), and more.
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.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 11 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 324 | #76 | #37 |
| California | 363 | #77 | #33 |
| Delaware | 9 | #90 | #109 |
| Illinois | 88 | #98 | #57 |
| Arizona | 61 | #100 | #60 |
| Maryland | 38 | #117 | #122 |
| Tennessee | 61 | #120 | #212 |
| Mississippi | 20 | #121 | #473 |
| New Mexico | 12 | #126 | #78 |
| Florida | 143 | #127 | #70 |
| Georgia | 70 | #141 | #97 |
| Colorado | 40 | #145 | #89 |
| New Jersey | 52 | #154 | #63 |
| Virginia | 51 | #156 | #121 |
| Nevada | 16 | #158 | #36 |
| Washington | 45 | #160 | #96 |
| New York | 101 | #163 | #96 |
| North Carolina | 61 | #169 | #128 |
| Indiana | 41 | #169 | #109 |
| Wisconsin | 30 | #184 | #176 |
| Oklahoma | 21 | #192 | #131 |
| Kansas | 17 | #198 | #128 |
| Ohio | 55 | #208 | #217 |
| Rhode Island | 5 | #210 | #153 |
| Idaho | 11 | #211 | #138 |
| Pennsylvania | 52 | #218 | #180 |
| Kentucky | 21 | #221 | #209 |
| Massachusetts | 26 | #221 | #151 |
| Arkansas | 14 | #223 | #105 |
| Alabama | 21 | #231 | #199 |
| Connecticut | 15 | #234 | #121 |
| Oregon | 16 | #236 | #91 |
| Nebraska | 10 | #236 | #178 |
| Minnesota | 24 | #239 | #172 |
| South Carolina | 20 | #259 | #168 |
| Michigan | 35 | #265 | #191 |
| Utah | 15 | #300 | #119 |
| Iowa | 11 | #314 | #153 |
| Missouri | 18 | #346 | #233 |
| Louisiana | 13 | #365 | #206 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,074 | #142 | — | — |
| 2024 | 2,253 | #122 | — | — |
| 2023 | 2,121 | #130 | — | — |
| 2022 | 2,173 | #130 | — | — |
| 2021 | 2,188 | #129 | — | — |
| 2020 | 2,528 | #105 | — | — |
| 2019 | 2,592 | #110 | — | — |
| 2018 | 2,850 | #105 | — | — |
| 2017 | 3,240 | #90 | 5 | #13,593 |
| 2016 | 3,490 | #82 | — | — |
| 2015 | 3,497 | #81 | — | — |
| 2014 | 3,701 | #81 | 7 | #10,358 |
| 2013 | 3,474 | #84 | — | — |
| 2012 | 3,467 | #77 | — | — |
| 2011 | 3,289 | #89 | 5 | #13,647 |
| 2010 | 3,486 | #82 | — | — |
| 2009 | 3,487 | #94 | — | — |
| 2008 | 3,714 | #85 | 8 | #9,564 |
| 2007 | 4,000 | #81 | 15 | #5,825 |
| 2006 | 4,034 | #85 | 9 | #8,510 |
| 2005 | 3,495 | #92 | 11 | #6,948 |
| 2004 | 3,583 | #89 | 16 | #5,174 |
| 2003 | 3,550 | #93 | 8 | #8,355 |
| 2002 | 3,484 | #94 | 7 | #9,071 |
| 2001 | 2,913 | #117 | 7 | #8,919 |
| 2000 | 2,968 | #114 | 13 | #5,488 |
| 1999 | 2,649 | #126 | 8 | #7,628 |
| 1998 | 2,459 | #135 | — | — |
| 1997 | 2,522 | #127 | 9 | #6,435 |
| 1996 | 2,664 | #119 | 8 | #6,906 |
| 1995 | 2,646 | #117 | 10 | #5,771 |
| 1994 | 2,679 | #120 | 6 | #8,428 |
| 1993 | 2,987 | #110 | 9 | #6,070 |
| 1992 | 3,353 | #98 | 13 | #4,492 |
| 1991 | 3,580 | #96 | 10 | #5,374 |
| 1990 | 3,813 | #86 | 19 | #3,261 |
| 1989 | 3,628 | #88 | 21 | #2,961 |
| 1988 | 2,834 | #99 | 13 | #3,824 |
| 1987 | 2,745 | #102 | 8 | #5,279 |
| 1986 | 2,973 | #97 | 7 | #5,725 |
| 1985 | 3,132 | #88 | 18 | #2,789 |
| 1984 | 3,516 | #85 | 21 | #2,410 |
| 1983 | 3,553 | #79 | 18 | #2,637 |
| 1982 | 4,255 | #65 | 14 | #3,230 |
| 1981 | 4,475 | #66 | 12 | #3,540 |
| 1980 | 4,841 | #60 | 21 | #2,417 |
| 1979 | 5,021 | #53 | 24 | #2,138 |
| 1978 | 4,996 | #54 | 16 | #2,752 |
| 1977 | 5,373 | #53 | 17 | #2,622 |
| 1976 | 5,241 | #53 | 18 | #2,472 |
| 1975 | 5,369 | #52 | 14 | #2,856 |
| 1974 | 5,483 | #51 | 19 | #2,249 |
| 1973 | 6,079 | #43 | 19 | #2,183 |
| 1972 | 6,296 | #42 | 24 | #1,858 |
| 1971 | 5,135 | #66 | 11 | #3,092 |
| 1970 | 4,330 | #91 | 13 | #2,699 |
| 1969 | 3,925 | #92 | 5 | #4,799 |
| 1968 | 3,641 | #94 | 13 | #2,411 |
| 1967 | 3,108 | #110 | — | — |
| 1966 | 3,050 | #116 | 6 | #3,790 |
| 1965 | 3,116 | #122 | 9 | #2,915 |
| 1964 | 3,943 | #105 | 15 | #2,169 |
| 1963 | 4,268 | #101 | 9 | #2,989 |
| 1962 | 4,281 | #106 | — | — |
| 1961 | 3,757 | #123 | 6 | #3,920 |
| 1960 | 3,662 | #125 | 7 | #3,543 |
| 1959 | 2,826 | #149 | — | — |
| 1958 | 2,535 | #157 | — | — |
| 1957 | 2,474 | #152 | 6 | #3,829 |
| 1956 | 2,691 | #143 | 7 | #3,423 |
| 1955 | 2,658 | #141 | — | — |
| 1954 | 1,859 | #178 | — | — |
| 1953 | 1,423 | #210 | — | — |
| 1952 | 1,351 | #211 | — | — |
| 1951 | 1,006 | #244 | — | — |
| 1950 | 1,026 | #237 | — | — |
| 1949 | 1,199 | #217 | — | — |
| 1948 | 955 | #242 | — | — |
| 1947 | 520 | #350 | — | — |
| 1946 | 410 | #376 | — | — |
| 1945 | 335 | #386 | — | — |
| 1944 | 307 | #413 | — | — |
| 1943 | 407 | #354 | — | — |
| 1942 | 388 | #356 | — | — |
| 1941 | 308 | #393 | — | — |
| 1940 | 200 | #480 | — | — |
| 1939 | 57 | #933 | — | — |
| 1938 | 53 | #982 | — | — |
| 1937 | 39 | #1,155 | — | — |
| 1936 | 13 | #2,351 | — | — |
| 1935 | 9 | #3,087 | — | — |
| 1934 | 9 | #3,084 | — | — |
| 1933 | 17 | #1,949 | — | — |
| 1932 | 16 | #2,103 | — | — |
| 1931 | 17 | #2,004 | — | — |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,645 | — | — |
| 1929 | 16 | #2,155 | — | — |
| 1928 | 20 | #1,945 | — | — |
| 1927 | 27 | #1,607 | — | — |
| 1926 | 20 | #1,972 | — | — |
| 1925 | 15 | #2,456 | — | — |
| 1924 | 13 | #2,765 | — | — |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,859 | — | — |
| 1922 | 18 | #2,161 | — | — |
| 1921 | 16 | #2,346 | — | — |
| 1920 | 26 | #1,651 | — | — |
| 1919 | 17 | #2,129 | — | — |
| 1918 | 22 | #1,789 | — | — |
| 1917 | 15 | #2,282 | — | — |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,330 | — | — |
| 1915 | 20 | #1,718 | — | — |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,792 | — | — |
| 1913 | 12 | #1,849 | — | — |
| 1912 | 20 | #1,203 | — | — |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,741 | — | — |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,883 | — | — |
| 1909 | 10 | #1,439 | — | — |
| 1908 | 11 | #1,321 | — | — |
| 1907 | 12 | #1,192 | — | — |
| 1906 | 8 | #1,511 | — | — |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,647 | — | — |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,597 | — | — |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,979 | — | — |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,606 | — | — |
| 1900 | 13 | #1,088 | — | — |
| 1899 | 9 | #1,159 | — | — |
| 1898 | 11 | #1,080 | — | — |
| 1897 | 7 | #1,345 | — | — |
| 1895 | 7 | #1,385 | — | — |
| 1894 | 10 | #1,043 | — | — |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,580 | — | — |
| 1892 | 8 | #1,146 | — | — |
| 1891 | 6 | #1,293 | — | — |
| 1889 | 7 | #1,094 | — | — |
| 1887 | 6 | #1,111 | — | — |
| 1886 | 8 | #874 | — | — |
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).