Meaning not yet researched.
Melany: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 779 in 2025. Its best rank was #399 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Melany in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#399 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Melany: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 779 girls in 2025. Peak: #399 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 779 (2025).
In 2025, 779 US girls were named Melany, making it the 399th most common girls’ name of the year, up 38 places from #437 in 2024. That is 70 more than the 709 girls named Melany in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #399, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 779. For comparison, it was #485 in 2015 and #3,361 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Melany in 79 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1942 with 6 babies. In all, 17,384 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 6,263 babies named Melany.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,441 US girls were named Melany; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 779. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,063 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Melany ranked highest in Maryland in 2025, at #180 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), Melony (4,459 babies since 1880) and Milani (11,656 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Meloney, Meleny and Mellany are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Meloney (895), Meleny (524), Mellany (476), Milany (268), Mellony (146), Meilany (121), Milanya (69), Miliany (45), Mileny (29), Milanny (10).
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 Melany 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 16 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | 29 | #180 | #614 |
| Delaware | 5 | #208 | — |
| Texas | 152 | #228 | #245 |
| North Carolina | 40 | #277 | #590 |
| California | 106 | #306 | #297 |
| Georgia | 34 | #314 | #611 |
| Iowa | 11 | #315 | — |
| Florida | 54 | #340 | #583 |
| Tennessee | 23 | #358 | #1,031 |
| New Jersey | 23 | #358 | #413 |
| New Mexico | 5 | #361 | — |
| Virginia | 22 | #370 | #577 |
| Connecticut | 8 | #374 | #556 |
| Mississippi | 8 | #376 | — |
| Nebraska | 6 | #378 | — |
| Colorado | 16 | #383 | #394 |
| New York | 42 | #418 | #318 |
| South Carolina | 12 | #433 | — |
| Massachusetts | 13 | #436 | #470 |
| Arizona | 16 | #442 | #340 |
| Oklahoma | 9 | #471 | #411 |
| Minnesota | 10 | #533 | — |
| Illinois | 19 | #538 | #627 |
| Nevada | 5 | #574 | #225 |
| Ohio | 18 | #585 | #1,131 |
| Washington | 11 | #608 | #629 |
| Indiana | 10 | #637 | #1,041 |
| Kansas | 5 | #655 | #324 |
| Louisiana | 7 | #660 | — |
| Alabama | 7 | #693 | #535 |
| Missouri | 8 | #709 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | #799 | #999 |
| Kentucky | 5 | #830 | — |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #882 | #824 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,350 | #1,224 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 779 | #399 | — | — |
| 2024 | 709 | #437 | — | — |
| 2023 | 465 | #633 | — | — |
| 2022 | 474 | #624 | — | — |
| 2021 | 400 | #716 | — | — |
| 2020 | 450 | #643 | — | — |
| 2019 | 492 | #613 | — | — |
| 2018 | 490 | #614 | — | — |
| 2017 | 632 | #494 | — | — |
| 2016 | 550 | #566 | — | — |
| 2015 | 660 | #485 | — | — |
| 2014 | 730 | #441 | — | — |
| 2013 | 670 | #455 | — | — |
| 2012 | 633 | #487 | — | — |
| 2011 | 638 | #466 | — | — |
| 2010 | 768 | #411 | — | — |
| 2009 | 745 | #427 | — | — |
| 2008 | 747 | #425 | — | — |
| 2007 | 776 | #423 | — | — |
| 2006 | 684 | #464 | 5 | #13,351 |
| 2005 | 537 | #539 | — | — |
| 2004 | 481 | #586 | — | — |
| 2003 | 482 | #576 | — | — |
| 2002 | 365 | #687 | — | — |
| 2001 | 257 | #894 | — | — |
| 2000 | 196 | #1,062 | — | — |
| 1999 | 153 | #1,235 | — | — |
| 1998 | 102 | #1,605 | — | — |
| 1997 | 113 | #1,462 | — | — |
| 1996 | 92 | #1,665 | — | — |
| 1995 | 50 | #2,546 | — | — |
| 1994 | 62 | #2,175 | — | — |
| 1993 | 69 | #2,026 | — | — |
| 1992 | 67 | #2,047 | — | — |
| 1991 | 53 | #2,407 | — | — |
| 1990 | 77 | #1,857 | — | — |
| 1989 | 67 | #1,939 | — | — |
| 1988 | 46 | #2,395 | — | — |
| 1987 | 33 | #2,951 | — | — |
| 1986 | 44 | #2,325 | — | — |
| 1985 | 43 | #2,344 | — | — |
| 1984 | 45 | #2,216 | — | — |
| 1983 | 56 | #1,876 | — | — |
| 1982 | 50 | #2,069 | — | — |
| 1981 | 49 | #2,105 | — | — |
| 1980 | 75 | #1,564 | — | — |
| 1979 | 63 | #1,748 | — | — |
| 1978 | 42 | #2,221 | — | — |
| 1977 | 56 | #1,821 | — | — |
| 1976 | 46 | #1,957 | — | — |
| 1975 | 52 | #1,795 | — | — |
| 1974 | 41 | #2,049 | — | — |
| 1973 | 55 | #1,660 | — | — |
| 1972 | 56 | #1,616 | — | — |
| 1971 | 44 | #1,953 | — | — |
| 1970 | 48 | #1,851 | — | — |
| 1969 | 51 | #1,701 | — | — |
| 1968 | 56 | #1,532 | — | — |
| 1967 | 28 | #2,302 | — | — |
| 1966 | 34 | #2,003 | — | — |
| 1965 | 35 | #1,973 | — | — |
| 1964 | 41 | #1,854 | — | — |
| 1963 | 46 | #1,704 | — | — |
| 1962 | 38 | #1,878 | — | — |
| 1961 | 52 | #1,573 | — | — |
| 1960 | 61 | #1,413 | — | — |
| 1959 | 56 | #1,445 | — | — |
| 1958 | 31 | #2,010 | — | — |
| 1957 | 23 | #2,397 | — | — |
| 1956 | 42 | #1,652 | — | — |
| 1955 | 33 | #1,866 | — | — |
| 1954 | 17 | #2,761 | — | — |
| 1953 | 17 | #2,663 | — | — |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,881 | — | — |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,644 | — | — |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,361 | — | — |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,115 | — | — |
| 1944 | 5 | #5,040 | — | — |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,473 | — | — |
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).