girls:
19k births since 1883
#1067 (81st percentile)
overall:
19k births since 1883
#1862 (76th percentile)
The name Melina is the #1,862 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 19,021 recorded births since 1883. This represents the 75.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 75.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,067 (81.3% percentile) for all time with 19,021 births since 1883.
Melina first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1883 (first recorded for girls in 1883). Birth data for Melina is available in 115 out of the 141 years between 1883 and 2023. 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, Melina reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 57.3% percentile (ranked #410) with 336 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 336 births per million (ranked 57.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2016, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Melina ranks #542 for girls (42.8% percentile) with 256 births per million, which is 76.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Melina".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Melina. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 53.7% confident that Melina is pronounced as muh-LEE-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is meh-LEE-nuh, at 39.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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