Melaina
Melaina is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 9 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 90.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 200478 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1964
- 1,188people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,188 girls have been named Melaina in the United States since 1964, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2004, with 78 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2004, and the 2000s alone account for 37%.
By decade
In 2004, its biggest year
Melaina was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2004 were Emily, Emma, Madison, Olivia and Hannah. See all of 2004.
Names that rose and fell with Melaina
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Perlapeak 2003
- Meraripeak 2004
- Anessapeak 2007
- Aracelypeak 2003
- Jacipeak 2005
- Jackelinepeak 2000
- Kareenapeak 2002
- Johanapeak 2005
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.