Melany
Melany was given to 779 girls in 2025, #399 among girls’ names; 17,384 Americans have been recorded with it since 1942 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 17,100 Americans named Melany and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Melany by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Melany mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Melany is “a female given name.”
Rare non-standard variant of Melanie.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Melany?
#399 among girls’ names, 2025
Melany rose from #485 in 2015 to #399 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.37 to 0.48 per 1,000.
779 babies in 2025, the peak
Melany peaked in 2025, when 779 girls were given it, #399 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 709 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 779 | #399 | 0.48 |
| 2024 | 709 | #437 | 0.44 |
| 2023 | 465 | #633 | 0.29 |
| 2022 | 474 | #624 | 0.29 |
| 2021 | 400 | #716 | 0.24 |
| 2020 | 450 | #643 | 0.28 |
| 2019 | 492 | #613 | 0.29 |
| 2018 | 490 | #614 | 0.29 |
| 2017 | 632 | #494 | 0.37 |
| 2016 | 550 | #566 | 0.31 |
Every recorded year (79)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 660 | #485 | 0.37 |
| 2014 | 730 | #441 | 0.41 |
| 2013 | 670 | #455 | 0.38 |
| 2012 | 633 | #487 | 0.36 |
| 2011 | 638 | #466 | 0.36 |
| 2010 | 768 | #411 | 0.43 |
| 2009 | 745 | #427 | 0.41 |
| 2008 | 747 | #425 | 0.40 |
| 2007 | 776 | #423 | 0.40 |
| 2006 | 684 | #464 | 0.36 |
| 2005 | 537 | #539 | 0.29 |
| 2004 | 481 | #586 | 0.26 |
| 2003 | 482 | #576 | 0.26 |
| 2002 | 365 | #687 | 0.20 |
| 2001 | 257 | #894 | 0.14 |
| 2000 | 196 | #1,060 | 0.11 |
| 1999 | 153 | #1,233 | 0.09 |
| 1998 | 102 | #1,603 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 113 | #1,460 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 92 | #1,663 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 50 | #2,541 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 62 | #2,170 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 69 | #2,021 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 67 | #2,042 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 53 | #2,401 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 77 | #1,853 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 67 | #1,934 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 46 | #2,390 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 33 | #2,949 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 44 | #2,324 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 43 | #2,343 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 45 | #2,215 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 56 | #1,875 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 50 | #2,069 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 49 | #2,105 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 75 | #1,564 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 63 | #1,748 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 42 | #2,221 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 56 | #1,821 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 46 | #1,957 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 52 | #1,795 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 41 | #2,049 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 55 | #1,660 | 0.04 |
| 1972 | 56 | #1,616 | 0.04 |
| 1971 | 44 | #1,953 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 48 | #1,851 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 51 | #1,701 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 56 | #1,532 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 28 | #2,302 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 34 | #2,003 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 35 | #1,973 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 41 | #1,853 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 46 | #1,703 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 38 | #1,877 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 52 | #1,572 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 61 | #1,412 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 56 | #1,444 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 31 | #2,009 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 23 | #2,396 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 42 | #1,651 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 33 | #1,865 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 17 | #2,760 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 17 | #2,662 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,880 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,643 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,360 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,114 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 5 | #5,038 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,471 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Melany a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Melany has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 79 years of records.
Girls and boys named Melany: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Melany, and how old are they?
17,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 17,384 Americans ever recorded as Melany. The median Melany alive today is 15 years old; half are between 9 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 12,514 people named Melany (12,485 women and girls, 29 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 14,011 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 6 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 416 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 728 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 879 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 7,610 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7,460 |
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).
Where are babies named Melany born?
The states with the most babies named Melany are Texas, California and Florida, with 41% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 152 | #228 | 1.7× |
| California | 106 | #306 | 1.6× |
| Florida | 54 | #340 | 1.2× |
| New York | 42 | #418 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 40 | #277 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 34 | #314 | 0.8× |
| Maryland | 29 | #180 | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 23 | #358 | 1.3× |
| Tennessee | 23 | #358 | 0.5× |
| Virginia | 22 | #370 | 0.7× |
Where Melany is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Melany is most over-represented in Texas: since 1942 it was given 1.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Melany with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 320,875 babies since 1880, Melany is the third most given (5.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 779 of their 4,233 babies (18%), the second most given that year.
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 Melany
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 Melany and names like it
- Compare Melany and MelanieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMelany peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Melany since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Melany.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Melany alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.