Girls' name · since 2008
Melinah
Since 2008, U.S. Social Security records show 41 babies named Melinah, peaking in 2008. See the year-by-year trend, decade totals, and state rankings below, sourced from federal birth data.
- 41
- total births
- 2008–2022
- years on record
- 2010s
- peak decade
- 54%
- born in that decade
Melinah sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 41 recorded since 2008.
Melinah has 41 recorded births among girls since 2008, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2010s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2008 to 2022.
- 41 total births
- 2008–2022 years on record
- 2010s peak decade
- 54% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Melinah's 41 recorded births place it above 48% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Melinah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Melinah splits its recorded history at 2014: 54% of all births land in the more recent half, 46% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 2011 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2008 peak of 7 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Melinah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2008–2022
- Peak year (2008)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 15 years of records
Melinah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
2010s was Melinah's strongest decade.
22 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 54% of all-time use.
Melinah births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s
2000s
14 births
- 2010s
2010s
22 births
- 2020s 5
2020s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 2010s at 22 births (54% of all-time use).
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- Melinah's decade-level peak was the 2010s (22 total births); usage has since declined to 5 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2008–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Melinah: Baby Name Since 2008 - 41 Births, Peak 2008." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/melinah. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Melinah draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.