Melana — girls' name

What the Data Says About Melana

The Social Security Administration has registered 836 babies named Melana between 1947 and 2023, spanning 77 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Melana currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2004, when 71 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Melana performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 275 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Melana shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 7 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Wisconsin. In total, SSA state-level files list Melana in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Melana in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 836 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.