Melony
Melony was given to 16 girls in 2025, #7,030 among girls’ names; 4,459 Americans have been recorded with it since 1945 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,160 Americans named Melony and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 47 years old and half are between 27 and 58.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Melony by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Melony mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Melony is “a female given name from Ancient Greek, a less common spelling of Melanie.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Melony?
#7,030 among girls’ names, 2025
Melony fell from #3,898 in 2015 to #7,030 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 21.8 to 10.0 per million.
116 babies in 1974, the peak
Melony peaked in 1974, when 116 girls were given it, #1,038 among girls’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #7,030 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,470 | 9.3 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,577 | 11.2 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,519 | 9.1 |
| 2021 | 25 | #5,186 | 15.2 |
| 2020 | 16 | #7,111 | 9.9 |
| 2019 | 35 | #4,125 | 20.9 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,632 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,609 | 13.3 |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,804 | 16.4 |
Every recorded year (79)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 39 | #3,898 | 21.8 |
| 2014 | 40 | #3,826 | 22.4 |
| 2013 | 53 | #3,111 | 30.2 |
| 2012 | 50 | #3,304 | 28.4 |
| 2011 | 47 | #3,443 | 26.7 |
| 2010 | 71 | #2,578 | 39.9 |
| 2009 | 61 | #2,877 | 33.2 |
| 2008 | 63 | #2,847 | 33.3 |
| 2007 | 73 | #2,560 | 38.0 |
| 2006 | 54 | #3,123 | 28.4 |
| 2005 | 54 | #2,987 | 29.2 |
| 2004 | 51 | #3,051 | 27.8 |
| 2003 | 46 | #3,211 | 25.2 |
| 2002 | 46 | #3,123 | 25.6 |
| 2001 | 37 | #3,605 | 20.5 |
| 2000 | 43 | #3,193 | 23.7 |
| 1999 | 37 | #3,413 | 20.9 |
| 1998 | 32 | #3,704 | 18.1 |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,759 | 12.6 |
| 1996 | 40 | #3,003 | 22.8 |
| 1995 | 27 | #3,937 | 15.4 |
| 1994 | 30 | #3,662 | 16.8 |
| 1993 | 41 | #2,917 | 22.7 |
| 1992 | 46 | #2,666 | 24.9 |
| 1991 | 49 | #2,528 | 26.1 |
| 1990 | 62 | #2,114 | 32.7 |
| 1989 | 66 | #1,951 | 35.8 |
| 1988 | 49 | #2,281 | 27.5 |
| 1987 | 42 | #2,469 | 24.2 |
| 1986 | 59 | #1,900 | 34.4 |
| 1985 | 62 | #1,825 | 36.0 |
| 1984 | 67 | #1,650 | 39.8 |
| 1983 | 72 | #1,560 | 43.1 |
| 1982 | 73 | #1,605 | 43.1 |
| 1981 | 91 | #1,367 | 54.6 |
| 1980 | 85 | #1,440 | 51.2 |
| 1979 | 107 | #1,219 | 66.7 |
| 1978 | 97 | #1,271 | 63.3 |
| 1977 | 101 | #1,210 | 65.9 |
| 1976 | 98 | #1,169 | 66.9 |
| 1975 | 99 | #1,171 | 67.9 |
| 1974 | 116 | #1,038 | 79.0 |
| 1973 | 109 | #1,061 | 74.7 |
| 1972 | 94 | #1,159 | 61.8 |
| 1971 | 111 | #1,092 | 66.7 |
| 1970 | 108 | #1,098 | 61.8 |
| 1969 | 97 | #1,127 | 57.5 |
| 1968 | 103 | #1,026 | 62.8 |
| 1967 | 89 | #1,114 | 53.9 |
| 1966 | 107 | #990 | 63.2 |
| 1965 | 71 | #1,285 | 40.2 |
| 1964 | 108 | #1,045 | 57.0 |
| 1963 | 114 | #1,000 | 59.1 |
| 1962 | 95 | #1,117 | 48.3 |
| 1961 | 93 | #1,141 | 46.1 |
| 1960 | 83 | #1,194 | 41.0 |
| 1959 | 60 | #1,394 | 29.7 |
| 1958 | 49 | #1,534 | 24.4 |
| 1957 | 52 | #1,484 | 25.4 |
| 1956 | 60 | #1,346 | 29.9 |
| 1955 | 64 | #1,265 | 32.7 |
| 1954 | 18 | #2,666 | 9.3 |
| 1953 | 18 | #2,569 | 9.6 |
| 1952 | 17 | #2,638 | 9.2 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,900 | 5.0 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,841 | 2.9 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,802 | 5.3 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,844 | 2.8 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,370 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Melony a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Melony has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 79 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Melony: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Melony, and how old are they?
4,160 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 4,459 Americans ever recorded as Melony. The median Melony alive today is 47 years old; half are between 27 and 58.
The 2020 Census counted 4,197 people named Melony (4,188 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,147 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 716 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,480 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 850 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 779 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 337 |
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 Melony born?
The states with the most babies named Melony are California, Texas and North Carolina, with 57% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 523 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 371 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 111 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Florida | 96 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 87 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 86 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New York | 73 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 71 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Tennessee | 54 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 53 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Melony is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Melony is most over-represented in Texas: since 1945 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 Melony 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 56,637 babies since 1880, Melony is the fifth most given (7.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 1,507 babies (1.1%), again the fifth 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 Melony
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 Melony and names like it
- Compare Melony and MelinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sMelony peaked in 1974.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Melony since 1910.
- The top names of 1974The year the most babies were named Melony.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Melony alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with MMost given first.