Mellina
Mellina was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,466 among girls’ names; 113 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mellina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mellina?
#16,466 among girls’ names, 2025
Mellina fell from #12,619 in 2015 to #16,466 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 4.5 to 3.1 per million.
10 babies in 2020, the peak
Mellina peaked in 2020, when 10 girls were given it, #10,023 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 50% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,466 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 7 | #13,008 | 4.4 |
| 2020 | 10 | #10,023 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,190 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,327 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,633 | 4.1 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,619 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,072 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,360 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,612 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (18)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 9 | #11,926 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,704 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,884 | 2.7 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,032 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,381 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,006 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,731 | 2.8 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,314 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mellina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mellina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 18 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mellina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mellina, and how old are they?
An estimated 112 Americans named Mellina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 8 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 165 people named Mellina (165 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 93 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 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).
Names spelled alike
Mellina is a less common spelling of Melina: SSA has recorded 113 Mellina and 19,926 Melina since 1880.
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 Mellina
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.