Meaning not yet researched.
Melony: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 16 in 2025. Its best rank was #990 in 1966.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #990 in 1966; #7,032 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Melony in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,032 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1966, at #990.
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Melony: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 16 girls in 2025. Peak: #990 in 1966 · most girls in one year: 116 (1974).
In 2025, 16 US girls were named Melony, making it the 7,032nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 442 places from #7,474 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 15 girls named Melony in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #990, reached in 1966. The most girls given the name in a single year was 116, in 1974. For comparison, it was #3,899 in 2015 and #5,843 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Melony in 79 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1945 with 6 babies. In all, 4,459 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 1,040 babies named Melony.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 207 US girls were named Melony; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 35. In 2025 that was about 1 in 100,454 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Melody (115,084 babies since 1880), Melany (17,384 babies since 1880), Melonie (5,462 babies since 1880) and Melani (5,912 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Melloney 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: Melloney (29).
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 Melony in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #7,032 | — | — |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,474 | — | — |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,582 | — | — |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,524 | — | — |
| 2021 | 25 | #5,190 | — | — |
| 2020 | 16 | #7,115 | — | — |
| 2019 | 35 | #4,126 | — | — |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,636 | — | — |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,613 | — | — |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,805 | — | — |
| 2015 | 39 | #3,899 | — | — |
| 2014 | 40 | #3,828 | — | — |
| 2013 | 53 | #3,112 | — | — |
| 2012 | 50 | #3,305 | — | — |
| 2011 | 47 | #3,444 | — | — |
| 2010 | 71 | #2,578 | — | — |
| 2009 | 61 | #2,878 | — | — |
| 2008 | 63 | #2,847 | — | — |
| 2007 | 73 | #2,560 | — | — |
| 2006 | 54 | #3,124 | — | — |
| 2005 | 54 | #2,991 | — | — |
| 2004 | 51 | #3,055 | — | — |
| 2003 | 46 | #3,215 | — | — |
| 2002 | 46 | #3,127 | — | — |
| 2001 | 37 | #3,609 | — | — |
| 2000 | 43 | #3,197 | — | — |
| 1999 | 37 | #3,416 | — | — |
| 1998 | 32 | #3,707 | — | — |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,763 | — | — |
| 1996 | 40 | #3,008 | — | — |
| 1995 | 27 | #3,942 | — | — |
| 1994 | 30 | #3,667 | — | — |
| 1993 | 41 | #2,922 | — | — |
| 1992 | 46 | #2,671 | — | — |
| 1991 | 49 | #2,534 | — | — |
| 1990 | 62 | #2,119 | — | — |
| 1989 | 66 | #1,956 | — | — |
| 1988 | 49 | #2,286 | — | — |
| 1987 | 42 | #2,471 | — | — |
| 1986 | 59 | #1,901 | — | — |
| 1985 | 62 | #1,826 | — | — |
| 1984 | 67 | #1,650 | — | — |
| 1983 | 72 | #1,560 | — | — |
| 1982 | 73 | #1,605 | — | — |
| 1981 | 91 | #1,367 | — | — |
| 1980 | 85 | #1,440 | — | — |
| 1979 | 107 | #1,219 | — | — |
| 1978 | 97 | #1,271 | — | — |
| 1977 | 101 | #1,210 | — | — |
| 1976 | 98 | #1,169 | — | — |
| 1975 | 99 | #1,171 | — | — |
| 1974 | 116 | #1,038 | — | — |
| 1973 | 109 | #1,061 | — | — |
| 1972 | 94 | #1,159 | — | — |
| 1971 | 111 | #1,092 | — | — |
| 1970 | 108 | #1,098 | — | — |
| 1969 | 97 | #1,127 | — | — |
| 1968 | 103 | #1,026 | — | — |
| 1967 | 89 | #1,114 | — | — |
| 1966 | 107 | #990 | — | — |
| 1965 | 71 | #1,285 | — | — |
| 1964 | 108 | #1,045 | — | — |
| 1963 | 114 | #1,000 | — | — |
| 1962 | 95 | #1,117 | — | — |
| 1961 | 93 | #1,142 | — | — |
| 1960 | 83 | #1,195 | — | — |
| 1959 | 60 | #1,395 | — | — |
| 1958 | 49 | #1,535 | — | — |
| 1957 | 52 | #1,485 | — | — |
| 1956 | 60 | #1,347 | — | — |
| 1955 | 64 | #1,266 | — | — |
| 1954 | 18 | #2,667 | — | — |
| 1953 | 18 | #2,570 | — | — |
| 1952 | 17 | #2,639 | — | — |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,901 | — | — |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,843 | — | — |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,803 | — | — |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,846 | — | — |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,372 | — | — |
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).