Mellie
Mellie was given to 15 girls in 2025, #7,378 among girls’ names; 2,203 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mellie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Mellie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Mellie is “a diminutive of the female given name Melanie.”
Also “a diminutive of the female given name Melinda.”
/ˈmɛli/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Mellie?
#7,378 among girls’ names, 2025
Mellie rose from #10,628 in 2015 to #7,378 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.6 to 9.3 per million.
48 babies in 1895, the peak
Mellie peaked in 1895, when 48 girls were given it, #407 among girls’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 31% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,378 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,469 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,801 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,907 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,348 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,260 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,931 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,599 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,156 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,491 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (101)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #10,628 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,891 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,226 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,119 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,085 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,156 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,483 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,260 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,716 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,866 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,346 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,146 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,996 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,893 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,157 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,039 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 13 | #3,266 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,459 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,364 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,415 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,857 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,116 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 12 | #3,081 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,727 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,577 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 14 | #2,411 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,723 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 19 | #2,053 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 24 | #1,745 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,451 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 15 | #2,177 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 14 | #2,272 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 26 | #1,496 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 19 | #1,825 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 15 | #2,114 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 26 | #1,473 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 26 | #1,469 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 34 | #1,237 | 0.03 |
| 1932 | 22 | #1,664 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 38 | #1,172 | 0.04 |
| 1930 | 36 | #1,266 | 0.03 |
| 1929 | 29 | #1,436 | 0.03 |
| 1928 | 27 | #1,575 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 30 | #1,509 | 0.03 |
| 1926 | 36 | #1,319 | 0.03 |
| 1925 | 38 | #1,286 | 0.03 |
| 1924 | 34 | #1,430 | 0.03 |
| 1923 | 47 | #1,125 | 0.04 |
| 1922 | 26 | #1,671 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 48 | #1,109 | 0.04 |
| 1920 | 35 | #1,339 | 0.03 |
| 1919 | 47 | #1,072 | 0.04 |
| 1918 | 48 | #1,051 | 0.04 |
| 1917 | 33 | #1,276 | 0.03 |
| 1916 | 41 | #1,109 | 0.04 |
| 1915 | 39 | #1,089 | 0.04 |
| 1914 | 35 | #1,018 | 0.05 |
| 1913 | 37 | #878 | 0.06 |
| 1912 | 37 | #828 | 0.07 |
| 1911 | 25 | #866 | 0.06 |
| 1910 | 31 | #776 | 0.08 |
| 1909 | 35 | #681 | 0.10 |
| 1908 | 20 | #903 | 0.06 |
| 1907 | 28 | #723 | 0.09 |
| 1906 | 31 | #658 | 0.10 |
| 1905 | 31 | #637 | 0.11 |
| 1904 | 27 | #677 | 0.10 |
| 1903 | 23 | #707 | 0.09 |
| 1902 | 31 | #598 | 0.12 |
| 1901 | 27 | #611 | 0.11 |
| 1900 | 35 | #598 | 0.12 |
| 1899 | 31 | #545 | 0.13 |
| 1898 | 19 | #784 | 0.07 |
| 1897 | 18 | #752 | 0.08 |
| 1896 | 21 | #699 | 0.09 |
| 1895 | 48 | #407 | 0.21 |
| 1894 | 27 | #567 | 0.12 |
| 1893 | 24 | #590 | 0.11 |
| 1892 | 20 | #654 | 0.09 |
| 1891 | 26 | #513 | 0.14 |
| 1890 | 34 | #439 | 0.18 |
| 1889 | 26 | #497 | 0.15 |
| 1888 | 39 | #389 | 0.22 |
| 1887 | 28 | #418 | 0.19 |
| 1886 | 30 | #397 | 0.21 |
| 1885 | 21 | #465 | 0.16 |
| 1884 | 19 | #472 | 0.15 |
| 1883 | 21 | #419 | 0.19 |
| 1882 | 16 | #472 | 0.15 |
| 1881 | 17 | #412 | 0.18 |
| 1880 | 16 | #430 | 0.18 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mellie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mellie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 101 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mellie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mellie, and how old are they?
An estimated 405 Americans named Mellie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (18% of everyone recorded); the median is 63 years old and half are between 8 and 81. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 649 people named Mellie (629 women and girls, 20 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 437 born in the U.S. The Census count is 49% above 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 9,547 babies since 1880, Mellie is the second most given (23% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 130 babies (12%), again the second most given.
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 Mellie
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 Mellie and names like it
- Compare Mellie and MeliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1890sMellie peaked in 1895.
- Alabama’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mellie since 1910.
- The top names of 1895The year the most babies were named Mellie.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Mellie alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.