Melanee
Melanee was last recorded in 2024, when 7 babies were given it; 1,222 Americans have been recorded with it between 1949 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,140 Americans named Melanee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 19 and 57.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Melanee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Melanee?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,004, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
28 babies in 1963, the peak
Melanee peaked in 1963, when 28 girls were given it, #2,282 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7 | #13,004 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 7 | #13,001 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,880 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,345 | 6.7 |
| 2020 | 10 | #10,021 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,440 | 7.7 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,598 | 6.5 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,466 | 5.8 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,408 | 14.1 |
| 2015 | 19 | #6,635 | 10.6 |
Every recorded year (76)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 15 | #7,940 | 8.4 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,175 | 12.0 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,264 | 11.9 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,485 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 27 | #5,204 | 15.2 |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,330 | 14.7 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,732 | 10.6 |
| 2007 | 23 | #6,022 | 12.0 |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,520 | 10.5 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,168 | 10.8 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,676 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,224 | 10.4 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,254 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,222 | 10.0 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,639 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,598 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,383 | 7.4 |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,134 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,358 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,509 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,464 | 12.9 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,353 | 9.9 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,499 | 5.4 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,843 | 8.5 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,149 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 18 | #4,979 | 9.8 |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,591 | 10.7 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,490 | 8.1 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,390 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 8 | #8,031 | 4.6 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,140 | 6.5 |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,606 | 9.6 |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,644 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,457 | 10.2 |
| 1980 | 20 | #3,938 | 12.0 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,351 | 10.6 |
| 1978 | 18 | #4,017 | 11.8 |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,858 | 12.4 |
| 1976 | 19 | #3,618 | 13.0 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,281 | 10.3 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,363 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,891 | 11.0 |
| 1972 | 23 | #2,952 | 15.1 |
| 1971 | 23 | #3,026 | 13.8 |
| 1970 | 27 | #2,677 | 15.4 |
| 1969 | 26 | #2,625 | 15.4 |
| 1968 | 20 | #2,937 | 12.2 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,509 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 14 | #3,485 | 8.3 |
| 1965 | 17 | #3,116 | 9.6 |
| 1964 | 18 | #3,063 | 9.5 |
| 1963 | 28 | #2,282 | 14.5 |
| 1962 | 21 | #2,712 | 10.7 |
| 1961 | 21 | #2,721 | 10.4 |
| 1960 | 22 | #2,621 | 10.9 |
| 1959 | 11 | #3,955 | 5.4 |
| 1958 | 17 | #2,930 | 8.5 |
| 1957 | 22 | #2,465 | 10.8 |
| 1956 | 19 | #2,687 | 9.5 |
| 1955 | 20 | #2,521 | 10.2 |
| 1954 | 12 | #3,437 | 6.2 |
| 1953 | 14 | #3,044 | 7.4 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,362 | 4.3 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,261 | 4.4 |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,856 | 5.3 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,529 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Melanee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Melanee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 76 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Melanee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Melanee, and how old are they?
1,140 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 1,222 Americans ever recorded as Melanee. The median Melanee alive today is 38 years old; half are between 19 and 57.
The 2020 Census counted 973 people named Melanee (973 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,126 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 210 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 277 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 215 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 286 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 156 |
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).
How common is the spelling Melanee?
Melanee is a less common spelling of Melanie: SSA has recorded 1,222 Melanee and 263,254 Melanie since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 300,949 babies since 1880, Melanee is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 3,312 babies recorded by SSA was a Melanee (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Melanee
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 Melanee and names like it
- Compare Melanee and MelanieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sMelanee peaked in 1963.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Melanee since 1910.
- The top names of 1963The year the most babies were named Melanee.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Melanee alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.