Melicent
Melicent was last recorded in 1970, when 5 babies were given it; 55 Americans have been recorded with it between 1916 and 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Melicent by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Melicent mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Melicent is “a female given name.”
Related to Millicent.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Melicent?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #8,836, in 1970; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
7 babies in 1925, the peak
Melicent peaked in 1925, when 7 girls were given it, #4,300 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 5 | #8,836 | 2.9 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,701 | 2.5 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,842 | 2.8 |
| 1943 | 7 | #4,068 | 5.0 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,820 | 4.4 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,864 | 4.7 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,355 | 4.2 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,300 | 5.8 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,464 | 4.1 |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,236 | 5.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Melicent a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Melicent has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 10 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Melicent: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Melicent, and how old are they?
An estimated 19 Americans named Melicent and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 126 people named Melicent (126 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 24 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).