girls:
2.4k births since 1925
#3534 (38th percentile)
overall:
2.4k births since 1925
#5424 (30th percentile)
The name Melaine is the #5,424 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,398 recorded births since 1925. This represents the 29.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 29.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,534 (38.2% percentile) for all time with 2,398 births since 1925.
Melaine first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1925 (first recorded for girls in 1925). Birth data for Melaine is available in 79 out of the 98 years between 1925 and 2022. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Melaine reached its peak popularity in 1981, achieving the 10.1% percentile (ranked #699) with 46 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 47 births per million (ranked 9.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Melaine".
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