Melora
Melora was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,733 among girls’ names; 365 Americans have been recorded with it since 1956 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Melora by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Melora mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Melora is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Melora?
#12,733 among girls’ names, 2025
Melora entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #12,733 in 2025.
14 babies in 1972, the peak
Melora peaked in 1972, when 14 girls were given it, #4,228 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 50% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,733 | 4.4 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,582 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,443 | 6.7 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,704 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,193 | 3.0 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,872 | 4.0 |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,074 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,892 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,121 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,241 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 12 | #9,797 | 6.5 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,791 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,325 | 4.7 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,597 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,986 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,885 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,013 | 4.4 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,260 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,910 | 2.8 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,783 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,619 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,727 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,839 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,643 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,275 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,019 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,676 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,878 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,228 | 9.2 |
| 1971 | 13 | #4,455 | 7.8 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,799 | 4.0 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,792 | 4.7 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,145 | 7.3 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,280 | 4.8 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,382 | 5.9 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,405 | 5.7 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,867 | 4.7 |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,746 | 6.7 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,758 | 4.6 |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,934 | 5.9 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,850 | 5.9 |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,754 | 5.9 |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,100 | 5.0 |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,158 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Melora a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Melora has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Melora: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Melora, and how old are they?
An estimated 340 Americans named Melora and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 49 years old and half are between 18 and 60. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 403 people named Melora (401 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 320 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% 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 that rose and fell in the same decades as Melora
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1950-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Elke | 1,116 |
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.