Girls' name · since 1973
Melandie
21 babies named Melandie in U.S. Social Security records since 1973, with the highest year being 1981. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 21
- total births
- 1973–1985
- years on record
- 1980s
- peak decade
- 52%
- born in that decade
Melandie is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 21 have been recorded since 1973.
Melandie has 21 recorded births among girls since 1973, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1980s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1973 to 1985.
- 21 total births
- 1973–1985 years on record
- 1980s peak decade
- 52% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Melandie's 21 recorded births place it above 37% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Melandie's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Melandie's full recorded timeline at 1981, 52% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 48% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1973, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1981 peak of 6 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Melandie popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1973–1985
- Peak year (1981)
- 6
- Annual births at peak, across 13 years of records
Melandie by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1980s was Melandie's strongest decade.
11 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 52% of all-time use.
Melandie births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s
1970s
10 births
- 1980s
1980s
11 births
What this shows Peak: 1980s at 11 births (52% of all-time use).
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Data Sources
Data as of July 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, 1973–1985 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Melandie: Baby Name Since 1973 - 21 Births, Peak 1981." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/melandie. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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 Melandie 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 July 2026.