Melvinia
Melvinia was last recorded in 1976, when 5 babies were given it; 225 Americans have been recorded with it between 1893 and 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Melvinia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Melvinia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,276, in 1976; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
10 babies in 1920, the peak
Melvinia peaked in 1920, when 10 girls were given it, #3,271 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 5 | #10,276 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 7 | #7,010 | 4.6 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,158 | 3.6 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,261 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,626 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,517 | 3.2 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,776 | 4.7 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,999 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,425 | 2.6 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,457 | 3.2 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | 6 | #5,335 | 3.2 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,901 | 5.0 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,597 | 4.1 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,760 | 2.9 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,880 | 5.1 |
| 1945 | 5 | #5,020 | 3.8 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,711 | 5.7 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,842 | 5.8 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,668 | 6.4 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,771 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,115 | 5.6 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,644 | 4.8 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,675 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,652 | 5.0 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,865 | 4.7 |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,474 | 7.5 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,372 | 4.2 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,520 | 4.1 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,837 | 5.0 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,583 | 7.3 |
| 1920 | 10 | #3,271 | 8.3 |
| 1914 | 5 | #4,003 | 6.6 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,379 | 14.3 |
| 1908 | 6 | #2,024 | 17.9 |
| 1900 | 5 | #2,122 | 16.7 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,582 | 23.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Melvinia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Melvinia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Melvinia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Melvinia, and how old are they?
An estimated 98 Americans named Melvinia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 121 people named Melvinia (120 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 118 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
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 spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 7,753 babies since 1880, Melvinia is the fourth most given (2.9% of them).
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 Melvinia
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 Melvinia and names like it
- Compare Melvinia and MelvinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sMelvinia peaked in 1920.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Melvinia.
- Names starting with MMost given first.