Melana
Melana was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,570 among girls’ names; 844 Americans have been recorded with it since 1947 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Melana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Melana?
#11,570 among girls’ names, 2025
Melana entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #11,570 in 2025.
71 babies in 2004, the peak
Melana peaked in 2004, when 71 girls were given it, #2,415 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,570 | 5.0 |
| 2023 | 7 | #13,000 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,720 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,857 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,775 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,073 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,146 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,614 | 7.5 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,861 | 8.5 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,700 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (69)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 10 | #10,754 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,780 | 10.8 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,913 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 18 | #7,118 | 10.1 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,743 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,689 | 13.2 |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,630 | 16.6 |
| 2006 | 29 | #4,908 | 15.3 |
| 2005 | 34 | #4,167 | 18.4 |
| 2004 | 71 | #2,415 | 38.7 |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,535 | 12.0 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,308 | 8.3 |
| 2001 | 13 | #8,034 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,617 | 11.0 |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,099 | 7.9 |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,036 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,700 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,998 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,896 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,330 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,489 | 7.7 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,191 | 8.1 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,841 | 6.9 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,665 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,792 | 3.3 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,955 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,734 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,930 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,162 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,517 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,775 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,465 | 10.0 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,468 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,726 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,089 | 5.6 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,823 | 7.2 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,747 | 7.2 |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,031 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,493 | 9.6 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,325 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,078 | 7.5 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,795 | 4.0 |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,719 | 8.9 |
| 1968 | 9 | #5,017 | 5.5 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,277 | 4.8 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,302 | 3.5 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,713 | 5.1 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,299 | 4.2 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,694 | 3.6 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,187 | 5.6 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,209 | 2.5 |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,149 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,212 | 4.9 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,699 | 2.5 |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,154 | 3.5 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,275 | 4.6 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,535 | 3.1 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,238 | 2.7 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,617 | 5.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Melana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Melana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 69 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Melana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Melana, and how old are they?
An estimated 809 Americans named Melana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 19 and 45. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 833 people named Melana (830 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 787 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
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 319,323 babies since 1880, Melana is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 4,241 babies (<1%), again the eighth most given.
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 Melana
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 Melana and names like it
- Compare Melana and MelanieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMelana peaked in 2004.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Melana since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Melana.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Melana alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.