Melrose
Melrose was given to 38 girls in 2025, #3,879 among girls’ names; 1,231 Americans have been recorded with it since 1902 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Melrose by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Melrose?
#3,879 among girls’ names, 2025
Melrose rose from #7,490 in 2015 to #3,879 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 9.0 to 23.6 per million.
50 babies in 2024, the peak
Melrose peaked in 2024, when 50 girls were given it, #3,208 among girls’ names. The 38 births of 2025 are 76% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 38 | #3,879 | 23.6 |
| 2024 | 50 | #3,208 | 30.9 |
| 2023 | 38 | #3,958 | 23.7 |
| 2022 | 36 | #4,084 | 21.9 |
| 2021 | 37 | #3,983 | 22.5 |
| 2020 | 48 | #3,263 | 29.7 |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,402 | 14.3 |
| 2018 | 40 | #3,773 | 23.5 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,285 | 14.5 |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,805 | 16.4 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #7,490 | 9.0 |
| 2014 | 30 | #4,728 | 16.8 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,772 | 13.1 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,200 | 15.3 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,533 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,773 | 9.0 |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,216 | 5.4 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,820 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,967 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,598 | 3.7 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,333 | 3.1 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,212 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,629 | 3.1 |
| 1953 | 11 | #3,614 | 5.8 |
| 1952 | 9 | #4,020 | 4.9 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,952 | 2.8 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,842 | 2.9 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,769 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,379 | 6.2 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,878 | 5.1 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,295 | 6.8 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,710 | 5.7 |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,980 | 8.3 |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,380 | 11.4 |
| 1939 | 15 | #2,181 | 13.7 |
| 1938 | 17 | #1,997 | 15.4 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,343 | 7.5 |
| 1936 | 18 | #1,853 | 17.3 |
| 1935 | 17 | #1,973 | 16.2 |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,388 | 12.4 |
| 1933 | 14 | #2,241 | 13.9 |
| 1932 | 13 | #2,450 | 12.2 |
| 1931 | 17 | #2,004 | 16.0 |
| 1930 | 16 | #2,173 | 14.2 |
| 1929 | 18 | #1,991 | 16.1 |
| 1928 | 26 | #1,624 | 22.5 |
| 1927 | 27 | #1,607 | 22.6 |
| 1926 | 34 | #1,377 | 28.7 |
| 1925 | 20 | #1,988 | 16.4 |
| 1924 | 18 | #2,187 | 14.4 |
| 1923 | 17 | #2,239 | 14.1 |
| 1922 | 31 | #1,494 | 25.8 |
| 1921 | 25 | #1,754 | 20.3 |
| 1920 | 21 | #1,931 | 17.5 |
| 1919 | 27 | #1,549 | 23.9 |
| 1918 | 24 | #1,672 | 20.7 |
| 1917 | 19 | #1,893 | 17.6 |
| 1916 | 26 | #1,473 | 24.9 |
| 1915 | 14 | #2,210 | 14.2 |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,377 | 13.1 |
| 1913 | 9 | #2,274 | 14.4 |
| 1912 | 13 | #1,589 | 23.3 |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,332 | 15.0 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,956 | 18.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Melrose a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,231 Americans recorded as Melrose, 96% are girls and 4% boys. In 2025 it went to 38 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Melrose: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Melrose, and how old are they?
An estimated 640 Americans named Melrose and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (52% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 748 people named Melrose (713 women and girls, 35 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 472 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 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).
More about Melrose and names like it
- The most given names of the 2020sMelrose peaked in 2024.
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- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Melrose alive today were born 2013-2025.
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