Melvis — unisex name

What the Data Says About Melvis

The Social Security Administration has registered 54 babies named Melvis between 1923 and 1961, spanning 39 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Melvis currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1961. The name reached its historical peak in 1939, when 8 babies received it in a single year. Melvis is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 44 additional births since 1921.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Melvis performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 19 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Melvis shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Melvis in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Melvis 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 54 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.