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Melba: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7 in 2025. Its best rank was #202 in 1924.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #202 in 1924; #12,736 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Melba in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#12,736 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1924, at #202.
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Melba: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7 girls in 2025. Peak: #202 in 1924 · most girls in one year: 998 (1924).
In 2025, 7 US girls were named Melba, making it the 12,736th most common girls’ name of the year, down 942 places from #11,794 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 8 girls named Melba in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #202, reached in 1924. That year also had the most girls given the name: 998. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #403 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Melba in 121 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1893 with 7 babies. In all, 34,925 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 9,124 babies named Melba.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 49 US girls were named Melba; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 11. In 2025 that was about 1 in 229,610 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
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Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,736 | — | — |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,794 | — | — |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,446 | — | — |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,703 | — | — |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,384 | — | — |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,601 | — | — |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,331 | — | — |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,361 | — | — |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,569 | — | — |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,792 | — | — |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,366 | — | — |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,155 | — | — |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,724 | — | — |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,392 | — | — |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,046 | — | — |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,828 | — | — |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,451 | — | — |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,306 | — | — |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,516 | — | — |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,893 | — | — |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,475 | — | — |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,637 | — | — |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,319 | — | — |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,333 | — | — |
| 1989 | 22 | #4,320 | — | — |
| 1988 | 23 | #3,979 | — | — |
| 1987 | 35 | #2,823 | — | — |
| 1986 | 28 | #3,240 | — | — |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,382 | — | — |
| 1984 | 28 | #3,115 | — | — |
| 1983 | 36 | #2,536 | — | — |
| 1982 | 35 | #2,678 | — | — |
| 1981 | 40 | #2,432 | — | — |
| 1980 | 46 | #2,206 | — | — |
| 1979 | 47 | #2,135 | — | — |
| 1978 | 61 | #1,717 | — | — |
| 1977 | 51 | #1,940 | — | — |
| 1976 | 64 | #1,581 | — | — |
| 1975 | 69 | #1,493 | — | — |
| 1974 | 65 | #1,511 | — | — |
| 1973 | 85 | #1,234 | — | — |
| 1972 | 113 | #1,035 | — | — |
| 1971 | 87 | #1,275 | — | — |
| 1970 | 94 | #1,205 | — | — |
| 1969 | 77 | #1,286 | — | — |
| 1968 | 81 | #1,218 | — | — |
| 1967 | 105 | #1,000 | — | — |
| 1966 | 125 | #904 | — | — |
| 1965 | 144 | #830 | — | — |
| 1964 | 142 | #871 | — | — |
| 1963 | 183 | #760 | — | — |
| 1962 | 188 | #759 | — | — |
| 1961 | 238 | #669 | — | — |
| 1960 | 255 | #634 | — | — |
| 1959 | 265 | #612 | — | — |
| 1958 | 294 | #576 | — | — |
| 1957 | 388 | #484 | — | — |
| 1956 | 358 | #495 | — | — |
| 1955 | 404 | #446 | — | — |
| 1954 | 439 | #412 | — | — |
| 1953 | 460 | #395 | — | — |
| 1952 | 368 | #448 | — | — |
| 1951 | 423 | #399 | — | — |
| 1950 | 393 | #403 | — | — |
| 1949 | 427 | #379 | — | — |
| 1948 | 454 | #370 | — | — |
| 1947 | 523 | #349 | — | — |
| 1946 | 529 | #325 | — | — |
| 1945 | 502 | #306 | — | — |
| 1944 | 565 | #288 | — | — |
| 1943 | 597 | #286 | — | — |
| 1942 | 648 | #274 | — | — |
| 1941 | 715 | #242 | 7 | #3,043 |
| 1940 | 731 | #232 | — | — |
| 1939 | 781 | #213 | — | — |
| 1938 | 850 | #206 | — | — |
| 1937 | 789 | #212 | — | — |
| 1936 | 721 | #226 | 7 | #3,062 |
| 1935 | 758 | #225 | — | — |
| 1934 | 771 | #224 | — | — |
| 1933 | 776 | #217 | 5 | #3,984 |
| 1932 | 873 | #207 | — | — |
| 1931 | 770 | #217 | 8 | #3,014 |
| 1930 | 862 | #210 | — | — |
| 1929 | 817 | #217 | 5 | #4,353 |
| 1928 | 868 | #214 | — | — |
| 1927 | 892 | #213 | 6 | #4,041 |
| 1926 | 918 | #208 | — | — |
| 1925 | 938 | #210 | — | — |
| 1924 | 998 | #202 | 5 | #4,750 |
| 1923 | 922 | #211 | — | — |
| 1922 | 929 | #208 | — | — |
| 1921 | 910 | #210 | 9 | #3,138 |
| 1920 | 907 | #210 | — | — |
| 1919 | 791 | #221 | — | — |
| 1918 | 822 | #219 | — | — |
| 1917 | 701 | #234 | — | — |
| 1916 | 581 | #251 | — | — |
| 1915 | 493 | #264 | — | — |
| 1914 | 352 | #279 | — | — |
| 1913 | 274 | #286 | — | — |
| 1912 | 218 | #312 | — | — |
| 1911 | 146 | #328 | — | — |
| 1910 | 160 | #305 | — | — |
| 1909 | 123 | #327 | — | — |
| 1908 | 106 | #346 | — | — |
| 1907 | 113 | #327 | — | — |
| 1906 | 98 | #338 | — | — |
| 1905 | 102 | #337 | — | — |
| 1904 | 61 | #417 | — | — |
| 1903 | 45 | #479 | — | — |
| 1902 | 35 | #556 | — | — |
| 1901 | 36 | #512 | — | — |
| 1900 | 44 | #512 | — | — |
| 1899 | 46 | #431 | — | — |
| 1898 | 60 | #399 | — | — |
| 1897 | 36 | #485 | — | — |
| 1896 | 33 | #524 | — | — |
| 1895 | 19 | #735 | — | — |
| 1894 | 15 | #807 | — | — |
| 1893 | 7 | #1,256 | — | — |
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).