Melaney
Melaney was last recorded in 2024, when 11 babies were given it; 1,259 Americans have been recorded with it between 1947 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,200 Americans named Melaney and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 19 and 52.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Melaney by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Melaney?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,353, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
38 babies in 2007, the peak
Melaney peaked in 2007, when 38 girls were given it, #4,105 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 11 | #9,353 | 6.8 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,834 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,120 | 4.3 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,819 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,696 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,930 | 7.1 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,977 | 7.1 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,733 | 6.4 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,238 | 6.8 |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,488 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (74)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 13 | #8,795 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,422 | 8.0 |
| 2012 | 26 | #5,355 | 14.8 |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,270 | 11.9 |
| 2010 | 28 | #5,059 | 15.8 |
| 2009 | 32 | #4,647 | 17.4 |
| 2008 | 30 | #4,974 | 15.9 |
| 2007 | 38 | #4,105 | 19.8 |
| 2006 | 22 | #6,057 | 11.6 |
| 2005 | 35 | #4,087 | 18.9 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,489 | 12.5 |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,348 | 12.6 |
| 2002 | 19 | #6,044 | 10.6 |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,303 | 12.2 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,130 | 9.9 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,380 | 9.0 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,384 | 7.4 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,701 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 20 | #4,987 | 11.4 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,357 | 10.2 |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,956 | 11.2 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,354 | 9.9 |
| 1992 | 21 | #4,793 | 11.4 |
| 1991 | 26 | #4,005 | 13.9 |
| 1990 | 15 | #6,022 | 7.9 |
| 1989 | 25 | #3,970 | 13.6 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,789 | 7.9 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,610 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,114 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,911 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,122 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,216 | 10.8 |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,121 | 11.2 |
| 1981 | 22 | #3,695 | 13.2 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,443 | 10.2 |
| 1979 | 20 | #3,860 | 12.5 |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,718 | 13.1 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,748 | 7.2 |
| 1976 | 20 | #3,480 | 13.7 |
| 1975 | 27 | #2,784 | 18.5 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,364 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 17 | #3,741 | 11.7 |
| 1972 | 35 | #2,202 | 23.0 |
| 1971 | 20 | #3,330 | 12.0 |
| 1970 | 20 | #3,273 | 11.4 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,623 | 6.5 |
| 1968 | 23 | #2,681 | 14.0 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,278 | 4.8 |
| 1966 | 14 | #3,486 | 8.3 |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,874 | 6.8 |
| 1964 | 15 | #3,464 | 7.9 |
| 1963 | 19 | #2,926 | 9.9 |
| 1962 | 16 | #3,249 | 8.1 |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,933 | 5.9 |
| 1960 | 11 | #4,082 | 5.4 |
| 1959 | 15 | #3,207 | 7.4 |
| 1958 | 18 | #2,826 | 8.9 |
| 1957 | 17 | #2,894 | 8.3 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,735 | 3.0 |
| 1955 | 15 | #3,054 | 7.7 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,536 | 3.1 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,782 | 3.8 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,801 | 5.3 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,623 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Melaney a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Melaney has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 74 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Melaney: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Melaney, and how old are they?
1,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,259 Americans ever recorded as Melaney. The median Melaney alive today is 34 years old; half are between 19 and 52.
The 2020 Census counted 1,042 people named Melaney (1,040 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,175 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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 | 141 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 269 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 280 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 376 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 128 |
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 Melaney?
Melaney is a less common spelling of Melanie: SSA has recorded 1,259 Melaney and 263,254 Melanie since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 299,459 babies since 1880, Melaney is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 3,301 babies recorded by SSA was a Melaney (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 Melaney
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 Melaney and names like it
- Compare Melaney and MelanieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMelaney peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Melaney since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Melaney.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Melaney alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.