Girls' name · since 1997
Melly
Melly has 72 recorded births since 1997 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2021 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #30,822 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #15,765 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 72
- born since 1997
- 2020s
- peak decade
Melly currently ranks #15765 among girls' names in America, with 72 babies recorded since 1997.
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Melly has been recorded 72 times among girls since 1997, currently ranked #15765 nationally and more common than 9% of girls, with its heaviest use in the 2020s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1997 to 2025.
- #30,822 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #15,765 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 72 born since 1997
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Melly ranks #30,822 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #15,765 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 72 born since 1997, peaking in the 2020s.
- #30,822 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #15,765 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 72
- born since 1997
- 2020s
- peak decade
Melly's 72 recorded births place it above 57.3% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Melly compares
72 20th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Melly's all-time total is 81% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Melly | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 72 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 11 | 21 | 19,840 |
Melly's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Melly's full recorded timeline at 2019, 58% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 42% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1997, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2021 peak of 11 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Melly popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1997–2025
- Peak year (2021)
- 11
- Annual births at peak, across 29 years of records
Melly by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (37 births, 51% of the file).
2020s was Melly's strongest decade.
37 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 51% of all-time use.
Melly births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s 10
1990s
10 births
- 2000s 10
2000s
10 births
- 2010s
2010s
15 births
- 2020s
2020s
37 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 37 births (51% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 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, 1997–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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 Melly 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 August 2026.