Melanye
Melanye was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,571 among girls’ names; 304 Americans have been recorded with it since 1955 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Melanye by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Melanye?
#11,571 among girls’ names, 2025
Melanye rose from #15,760 in 2015 to #11,571 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.4 to 5.0 per million.
22 babies in 2006, the peak
Melanye peaked in 2006, when 22 girls were given it, #6,058 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 36% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,571 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,721 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,044 | 4.3 |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,027 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,379 | 4.6 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,760 | 3.4 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,348 | 6.7 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,276 | 9.7 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,520 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 15 | #8,064 | 8.5 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 16 | #7,772 | 9.0 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,569 | 9.3 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,288 | 9.5 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,965 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 22 | #6,058 | 11.6 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,679 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,091 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,171 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,255 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,974 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,676 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,038 | 5.1 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,268 | 3.4 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,127 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,834 | 2.9 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,155 | 3.6 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,342 | 3.1 |
| 1960 | 8 | #5,034 | 4.0 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,786 | 3.9 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,564 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,416 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Melanye a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Melanye has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Melanye: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Melanye, and how old are they?
An estimated 295 Americans named Melanye and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 14 and 24. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 291 people named Melanye (288 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 276 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Melanye
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.