Melaina
Melaina was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,622 among girls’ names; 1,197 Americans have been recorded with it since 1964 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,170 Americans named Melaina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 16 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Melaina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Melaina?
#10,622 among girls’ names, 2025
Melaina fell from #6,175 in 2015 to #10,622 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 11.8 to 5.6 per million.
78 babies in 2004, the peak
Melaina peaked in 2004, when 78 girls were given it, #2,253 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,622 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,809 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,396 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,879 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,818 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,443 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,335 | 11.3 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,301 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,995 | 9.8 |
| 2016 | 30 | #4,698 | 16.9 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #6,175 | 11.8 |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,918 | 12.3 |
| 2013 | 30 | #4,718 | 17.1 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,199 | 15.3 |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,155 | 15.3 |
| 2010 | 31 | #4,695 | 17.4 |
| 2009 | 33 | #4,546 | 18.0 |
| 2008 | 44 | #3,685 | 23.3 |
| 2007 | 37 | #4,184 | 19.2 |
| 2006 | 63 | #2,804 | 33.1 |
| 2005 | 55 | #2,953 | 29.8 |
| 2004 | 78 | #2,253 | 42.5 |
| 2003 | 38 | #3,704 | 20.8 |
| 2002 | 24 | #5,022 | 13.4 |
| 2001 | 33 | #3,913 | 18.3 |
| 2000 | 33 | #3,846 | 18.2 |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,677 | 13.5 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,281 | 11.3 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,381 | 8.6 |
| 1996 | 30 | #3,688 | 17.1 |
| 1995 | 29 | #3,738 | 16.5 |
| 1994 | 28 | #3,852 | 15.7 |
| 1993 | 28 | #3,840 | 15.5 |
| 1992 | 33 | #3,384 | 17.9 |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,427 | 12.3 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,720 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,432 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,484 | 5.6 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,431 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,213 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,766 | 5.8 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,121 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,338 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,854 | 8.9 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,685 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,892 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,515 | 6.2 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,837 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,414 | 7.8 |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,030 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,261 | 6.2 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,324 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,433 | 6.9 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,338 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,361 | 6.0 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,405 | 7.4 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,219 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,276 | 4.8 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,438 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Melaina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Melaina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 59 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Melaina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Melaina, and how old are they?
1,170 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,197 Americans ever recorded as Melaina. The median Melaina alive today is 22 years old; half are between 16 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 1,076 people named Melaina (1,073 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,124 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 120 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 260 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 576 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 214 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 52,623 babies since 1880, Melaina is the seventh most given (2.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 1,689 babies (<1%), the sixth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Melaina
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Melaina and names like it
- Compare Melaina and MelinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMelaina peaked in 2004.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Melaina since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Melaina.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Melaina alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.