Melonie
Melonie was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,624 among girls’ names; 5,462 Americans have been recorded with it since 1944 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,040 Americans named Melonie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 50 years old and half are between 37 and 59.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Melonie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Melonie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Melonie is “a female given name.”
Variant of Melanie.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Melonie?
#10,624 among girls’ names, 2025
Melonie fell from #4,679 in 2015 to #10,624 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 16.8 to 5.6 per million.
176 babies in 1973, the peak
Melonie peaked in 1973, when 176 girls were given it, #765 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,624 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,273 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,910 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,518 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 26 | #5,042 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 29 | #4,616 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,257 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,309 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,473 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 30 | #4,700 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (81)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #4,679 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,411 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 38 | #3,976 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 43 | #3,688 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,775 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 48 | #3,395 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 37 | #4,160 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 43 | #3,758 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 38 | #4,106 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 52 | #3,208 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 44 | #3,442 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 37 | #3,874 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 37 | #3,783 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 42 | #3,313 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 35 | #3,754 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 33 | #3,849 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 42 | #3,128 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 27 | #4,199 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 33 | #3,505 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 39 | #3,066 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 45 | #2,708 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 37 | #3,146 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 51 | #2,474 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 50 | #2,533 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 62 | #2,146 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 64 | #2,071 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 66 | #1,950 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 50 | #2,260 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 50 | #2,178 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 72 | #1,649 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 88 | #1,434 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 90 | #1,347 | 0.05 |
| 1983 | 98 | #1,269 | 0.06 |
| 1982 | 114 | #1,195 | 0.07 |
| 1981 | 113 | #1,177 | 0.07 |
| 1980 | 138 | #1,040 | 0.08 |
| 1979 | 113 | #1,172 | 0.07 |
| 1978 | 153 | #930 | 0.10 |
| 1977 | 126 | #1,050 | 0.08 |
| 1976 | 143 | #918 | 0.10 |
| 1975 | 138 | #930 | 0.09 |
| 1974 | 145 | #888 | 0.10 |
| 1973 | 176 | #765 | 0.12 |
| 1972 | 159 | #831 | 0.10 |
| 1971 | 171 | #815 | 0.10 |
| 1970 | 144 | #911 | 0.08 |
| 1969 | 146 | #865 | 0.09 |
| 1968 | 139 | #873 | 0.08 |
| 1967 | 125 | #917 | 0.08 |
| 1966 | 110 | #978 | 0.07 |
| 1965 | 99 | #1,058 | 0.06 |
| 1964 | 130 | #919 | 0.07 |
| 1963 | 160 | #825 | 0.08 |
| 1962 | 143 | #882 | 0.07 |
| 1961 | 86 | #1,196 | 0.04 |
| 1960 | 113 | #1,011 | 0.06 |
| 1959 | 86 | #1,154 | 0.04 |
| 1958 | 76 | #1,224 | 0.04 |
| 1957 | 73 | #1,234 | 0.04 |
| 1956 | 81 | #1,154 | 0.04 |
| 1955 | 95 | #1,032 | 0.05 |
| 1954 | 46 | #1,493 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 24 | #2,161 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 30 | #1,844 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 27 | #1,910 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 20 | #2,227 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 15 | #2,688 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,099 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,378 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,281 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,585 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Melonie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Melonie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 81 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Melonie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Melonie, and how old are they?
5,040 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 5,462 Americans ever recorded as Melonie. The median Melonie alive today is 50 years old; half are between 37 and 59.
The 2020 Census counted 4,864 people named Melonie (4,855 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,066 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 4 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,020 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,070 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,060 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 614 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 286 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Melonie born?
The states with the most babies named Melonie are Texas, California and New York, with 45% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 471 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| California | 457 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 210 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 157 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 136 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 130 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 120 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 119 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Alabama | 110 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Louisiana | 106 | not ranked | 1.0× |
Where Melonie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Melonie is most over-represented in Texas: since 1944 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Melonie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 286,745 babies since 1880, Melonie is the third most given (1.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 2,554 babies (<1%), the sixth most given that year.
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 Melonie
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 Melonie and names like it
- Compare Melonie and MelanieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sMelonie peaked in 1973.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Melonie since 1910.
- The top names of 1973The year the most babies were named Melonie.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Melonie alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with MMost given first.