Meaning not yet researched.
Melina: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 434 in 2025. Its best rank was #456 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #456 in 2009; #660 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Melina in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#660 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #456.
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Melina: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 434 girls in 2025. Peak: #456 in 2009 · most girls in one year: 681 (2009).
In 2025, 434 US girls were named Melina, making it the 660th most common girls’ name of the year, down 29 places from #631 in 2024. That is 35 fewer than the 469 girls named Melina in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #456, reached in 2009. That year also had the most girls given the name: 681. For comparison, it was #594 in 2015 and #3,595 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Melina in 117 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1883 with 5 babies. In all, 19,926 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 5,413 babies named Melina.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,657 US girls were named Melina; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 490. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,703 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Melina ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #298 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Melinda (136,159 babies since 1880), Malina (4,452 babies since 1880), Milena (7,749 babies since 1880) and Milana (7,027 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Melena, Melaina and Melana 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Melena (1,254), Melaina (1,197), Melana (844), Emelina (804), Melayna (530), Meleana (284), Melyna (271), Mylena (243), Melinna (240), Meleena (210), Meliana (200), Melona (177), 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.
No nicknames listed for Melina 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 24 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 20 | #298 | #555 |
| New Mexico | 5 | #362 | — |
| Arizona | 17 | #406 | #560 |
| Nevada | 7 | #409 | — |
| California | 80 | #420 | #339 |
| Utah | 9 | #472 | #690 |
| New Jersey | 15 | #523 | #322 |
| Iowa | 6 | #552 | — |
| Connecticut | 5 | #598 | #431 |
| Oregon | 6 | #603 | #769 |
| New York | 28 | #604 | #509 |
| Pennsylvania | 16 | #639 | #704 |
| Illinois | 15 | #651 | #456 |
| Texas | 45 | #681 | #626 |
| Florida | 25 | #686 | #727 |
| Indiana | 9 | #706 | #1,042 |
| Missouri | 8 | #710 | #915 |
| Virginia | 10 | #740 | #713 |
| Colorado | 7 | #763 | #745 |
| Tennessee | 9 | #798 | — |
| Kentucky | 5 | #831 | — |
| North Carolina | 11 | #882 | #1,056 |
| Alabama | 5 | #908 | — |
| Michigan | 8 | #929 | #880 |
| Ohio | 10 | #938 | #950 |
| Minnesota | 5 | #952 | #537 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,191 | #820 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 434 | #660 | — | — |
| 2024 | 469 | #631 | — | — |
| 2023 | 448 | #656 | — | — |
| 2022 | 460 | #641 | — | — |
| 2021 | 468 | #633 | — | — |
| 2020 | 445 | #648 | — | — |
| 2019 | 486 | #619 | — | — |
| 2018 | 471 | #635 | — | — |
| 2017 | 486 | #618 | — | — |
| 2016 | 490 | #614 | — | — |
| 2015 | 502 | #594 | — | — |
| 2014 | 496 | #596 | — | — |
| 2013 | 482 | #590 | — | — |
| 2012 | 440 | #646 | — | — |
| 2011 | 500 | #579 | — | — |
| 2010 | 593 | #504 | — | — |
| 2009 | 681 | #456 | — | — |
| 2008 | 598 | #519 | — | — |
| 2007 | 674 | #478 | — | — |
| 2006 | 536 | #549 | — | — |
| 2005 | 511 | #563 | — | — |
| 2004 | 434 | #628 | — | — |
| 2003 | 441 | #609 | — | — |
| 2002 | 489 | #555 | — | — |
| 2001 | 569 | #490 | — | — |
| 2000 | 480 | #543 | — | — |
| 1999 | 425 | #583 | — | — |
| 1998 | 270 | #794 | — | — |
| 1997 | 258 | #807 | — | — |
| 1996 | 288 | #731 | — | — |
| 1995 | 328 | #655 | — | — |
| 1994 | 292 | #714 | — | — |
| 1993 | 354 | #635 | — | — |
| 1992 | 292 | #729 | — | — |
| 1991 | 344 | #644 | — | — |
| 1990 | 238 | #824 | — | — |
| 1989 | 143 | #1,154 | — | — |
| 1988 | 127 | #1,193 | — | — |
| 1987 | 118 | #1,219 | — | — |
| 1986 | 140 | #1,076 | — | — |
| 1985 | 182 | #883 | — | — |
| 1984 | 169 | #887 | — | — |
| 1983 | 192 | #810 | — | — |
| 1982 | 200 | #805 | — | — |
| 1981 | 179 | #870 | — | — |
| 1980 | 184 | #849 | — | — |
| 1979 | 164 | #909 | — | — |
| 1978 | 134 | #1,019 | — | — |
| 1977 | 143 | #970 | — | — |
| 1976 | 148 | #895 | — | — |
| 1975 | 101 | #1,151 | — | — |
| 1974 | 79 | #1,340 | — | — |
| 1973 | 71 | #1,395 | — | — |
| 1972 | 86 | #1,232 | — | — |
| 1971 | 103 | #1,136 | — | — |
| 1970 | 75 | #1,400 | — | — |
| 1969 | 86 | #1,205 | — | — |
| 1968 | 89 | #1,142 | — | — |
| 1967 | 106 | #992 | — | — |
| 1966 | 58 | #1,458 | — | — |
| 1965 | 72 | #1,270 | — | — |
| 1964 | 44 | #1,766 | — | — |
| 1963 | 44 | #1,745 | — | — |
| 1962 | 57 | #1,487 | — | — |
| 1961 | 40 | #1,825 | — | — |
| 1960 | 20 | #2,788 | — | — |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,562 | — | — |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,677 | — | — |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,788 | — | — |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,626 | — | — |
| 1955 | 13 | #3,323 | — | — |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,177 | — | — |
| 1953 | 16 | #2,775 | — | — |
| 1952 | 12 | #3,327 | — | — |
| 1951 | 13 | #3,056 | — | — |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,595 | — | — |
| 1949 | 8 | #4,121 | — | — |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,727 | — | — |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,475 | — | — |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,823 | — | — |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,771 | — | — |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,649 | — | — |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,388 | — | — |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,406 | — | — |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,197 | — | — |
| 1926 | 12 | #2,825 | — | — |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,519 | — | — |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,621 | — | — |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,780 | — | — |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,306 | — | — |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,638 | — | — |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,768 | — | — |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,376 | — | — |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,424 | — | — |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,594 | — | — |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,962 | — | — |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,491 | — | — |
| 1914 | 7 | #3,076 | — | — |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,716 | — | — |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,856 | — | — |
| 1911 | 7 | #2,112 | — | — |
| 1910 | 7 | #2,067 | — | — |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,424 | — | — |
| 1908 | 11 | #1,322 | — | — |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,598 | — | — |
| 1903 | 7 | #1,527 | — | — |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,862 | — | — |
| 1900 | 5 | #2,120 | — | — |
| 1899 | 7 | #1,352 | — | — |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,870 | — | — |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,712 | — | — |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,534 | — | — |
| 1894 | 7 | #1,313 | — | — |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,399 | — | — |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,416 | — | — |
| 1885 | 7 | #896 | — | — |
| 1883 | 5 | #1,001 | — | — |
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).