Girls' name · since 2016
Melahni
Melahni has 88 recorded births since 2016 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2024 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #28,584 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #16,599 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 88
- born since 2016
- 2020s
- peak decade
88 babies have been named Melahni since 2016, making it today's #16599 girls' name.
Social Security Administration records show Melahni recorded 88 times among girls since 2016, holding rank #16599 nationally today, ahead of 4% of girls, peaking in the 2020s. This profile derives year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2016 to 2025.
- #28,584 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #16,599 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 88 born since 2016
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Melahni ranks #28,584 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #16,599 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 88 born since 2016, peaking in the 2020s.
- #28,584 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #16,599 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 88
- born since 2016
- 2020s
- peak decade
Melahni's 88 recorded births place it above 60.41% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Melahni compares
88 23rd 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
Melahni's all-time total is 77% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Melahni | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 88 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 16 | 21 | 19,840 |
Melahni's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Melahni's full recorded timeline at 2021, 50% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 50% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 2017, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2024 peak of 16 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Melahni popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2016–2025
- Peak year (2024)
- 16
- Annual births at peak, across 10 years of records
Melahni by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (51 births, 58% of the file).
2020s was Melahni's strongest decade.
51 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 58% of all-time use.
Melahni births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s
2010s
37 births
- 2020s
2020s
51 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 51 births (58% 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, 2016–2025 (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 Melahni 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.