boys:
1k births since 1890
#3581 (22nd percentile)
overall:
1k births since 1890
#6727 (13th percentile)
The name Melbourne is the #6,727 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,012 recorded births since 1890. This represents the 13.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 13.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,581 (21.9% percentile) for all time with 1,012 births since 1890.
Melbourne first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1890 (first recorded for boys in 1890). Birth data for Melbourne is available in 59 out of the 100 years between 1890 and 1989. 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 boys, Melbourne reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 7.2% percentile (ranked #507) with 39 births per million. The name was most common in 1901, with 52 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Melbourne".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Melbourne. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 66.0% confident that Melbourne is pronounced as MEHL-bern, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MEHL-born, at 21.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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