Girls' name · since 2018
Melaher
Melaher has 23 recorded births since 2018 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2019 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #44,246 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #14,590 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 23
- born since 2018
- 2020s
- peak decade
23 babies have been named Melaher since 2018, making it today's #14590 girls' name.
Melaher has 23 recorded births among girls since 2018, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #14590 as of the latest data, more common than 16% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2018 to 2025.
- #44,246 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #14,590 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 23 born since 2018
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Melaher ranks #44,246 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #14,590 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 23 born since 2018, peaking in the 2020s.
- #44,246 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #14,590 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 23
- born since 2018
- 2020s
- peak decade
Melaher's 23 recorded births place it above 38.51% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Melaher compares
23 9th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Melaher's all-time total is 94% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Melaher | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 23 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 6 | 21 | 19,840 |
Melaher's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Melaher's SSA record in two at 2024 and the more recent half accounts for 52% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 48%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 2018, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2019 peak of 6, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Melaher popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2018–2025
- Peak year (2019)
- 6
- Annual births at peak, across 8 years of records
Melaher by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (12 births, 52% of the file).
2020s was Melaher's strongest decade.
12 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 52% of all-time use.
Melaher births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s
2010s
11 births
- 2020s
2020s
12 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 12 births (52% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2018–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Melaher draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.