Melvina — girls' name

What the Data Says About Melvina

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,645 babies named Melvina between 1880 and 2023, spanning 144 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Melvina currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1920, when 136 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Melvina performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 1,058 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Melvina shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Louisiana, which accounts for 350 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Mississippi. In total, SSA state-level files list Melvina in 30 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Melvina in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 6,645 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.