Melane
Melane was last recorded in 2012, when 5 babies were given it; 210 Americans have been recorded with it between 1956 and 2012 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Melane by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Melane?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,637, in 2012; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
18 babies in 2005, the peak
Melane peaked in 2005, when 18 girls were given it, #6,723 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 5 | #18,637 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,119 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,900 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,115 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,316 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,523 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,378 | 8.9 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,723 | 9.7 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,305 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,010 | 4.4 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 10 | #9,991 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,028 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,380 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,037 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,729 | 2.8 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,878 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,858 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,825 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,667 | 3.4 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,972 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,833 | 2.9 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,220 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,024 | 4.3 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,835 | 4.2 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,439 | 2.6 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,341 | 3.1 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,215 | 2.5 |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,144 | 4.0 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,734 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Melane a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Melane has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Melane: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Melane, and how old are they?
An estimated 201 Americans named Melane and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 20 and 55. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 473 people named Melane (470 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 203 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Melane rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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
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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.