Melanie

girls:

258.3k births since 1886

#156 (97th percentile)

boys:

614 births since 1956

#3972 (13th percentile)

overall:

258.9k births since 1886

#306 (96th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Melanie".

1886 2023 18862023

Key Statistics

Total Births
258,286
Peak Births
6,295
Peak Year
1972
First Recorded
1886
Peak Percentile
94.6%
Current Percentile
86.7%
Peak Rank
#41
Current Rank
#127
Female statistics
Total Births
614
Peak Births
24
Peak Year
1972
First Recorded
1956
Peak Percentile
2.9%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#630
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Melanie

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Melanie. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 89.1% confident that Melanie is pronounced as MEH-luh-nee. The next most likely pronunciation is meh-LUH-nee, at 10.9% confidence.

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Melanie. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Melanie, please vote using the thumbs up button.

MEH-loh-nee (3 syllables)
4 names 6.2k births
M EH1 L OW0 N IY0
MEH-la-nee (3 syllables)
1 name 1.7k births
M EH1 L AE0 N IY0

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Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like M EH1 L AH0 N IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.