Melanye — girls' name

What the Data Says About Melanye

The Social Security Administration has registered 304 babies named Melanye between 1955 and 2025, spanning 71 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Melanye currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2025. The name reached its historical peak in 2006, when 22 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Melanye performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 129 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Melanye shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 23 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Melanye in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Melanye 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 304 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.