Melany — #438 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Melany

The Social Security Administration has registered 16,595 babies named Melany between 1942 and 2024, spanning 83 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Melany currently holds the #438 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2007, when 776 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Melany performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 6,263 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Melany shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 3,411 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Melany in 38 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Melany 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 16,595 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.