girls:
296 births since 1955
#5420 (5th percentile)
overall:
296 births since 1955
#7443 (4th percentile)
The name Melanye is the #7,443 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 296 recorded births since 1955. This represents the 3.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,420 (5.1% percentile) for all time with 296 births since 1955.
Melanye first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1955 (first recorded for girls in 1955). Birth data for Melanye is available in 30 out of the 68 years between 1955 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, Melanye reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 1.8% percentile (ranked #949) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 2006, with 11 births per million (ranked 1.8% 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 "Melanye".
These names exclude other spelling variations of Melanie. View all variations of Melanie.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Melanye", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 35 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Melanie" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Melanie..
Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Melanye. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 42.9% confident that Melanye is pronounced as MEH-luh-nee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is meh-LAY-nee, at 14.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Melanye? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Melanye. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Melanye, please vote using the thumbs up button.
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.
© 2025 NamePlay.org
Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker