Melinda
Melinda is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 91 births. Its best rank was 72nd, in 1973.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 910.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 19704,225 births
- Best rank
- #72in 1973
- Since 1880
- 135,724people given the name
The story in the numbers
135,724 girls have been named Melinda in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1970, with 4,225 births — 0.24% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 91 births in 2024, against 4,225 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1970, and the 1970s alone account for 27%. It has spent 90 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 15 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Melinda | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 129 | |
| 1890s | 157 | |
| 1900s | 137 | |
| 1910s | 199 | |
| 1920s | 202 | |
| 1930s | 567 | |
| 1940s | 5,423 | |
| 1950s | 21,509 | |
| 1960s | 36,295 | |
| 1970s | 36,438 | |
| 1980s | 22,212 | |
| 1990s | 7,927 | |
| 2000s | 2,495 | |
| 2010s | 1,571 | |
| 2020s | 463 |
In 1970, its biggest year
Melinda was the 93rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1970 were Jennifer, Lisa, Kimberly, Michelle and Amy. See all of 1970.
Names that rose and fell with Melinda
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Sharlapeak 1972
- Carynpeak 1965
- Carinpeak 1970
- Donellepeak 1970
- Kandiepeak 1970
- Jodeepeak 1973
- Rochellpeak 1971
- Tamarapeak 1970
Other spellings in the data
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.