girls:
135.6k births since 1880
#293 (95th percentile)
boys:
337 births since 1954
#4249 (7th percentile)
overall:
136k births since 1880
#546 (93rd percentile)
The name Melinda is the #546 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 135,966 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 93.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 93.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #293 (94.9% percentile) for all time with 135,629 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,249 (7.3% percentile) for all time with 337 births since 1954.
Melinda has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1954 for boys).
The name Melinda has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Melinda reached its peak popularity in 1973, achieving the 90.4% percentile (ranked #72) with 2,667 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 2,667 births per million (ranked 90.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2010, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Melinda ranks #862 for girls (9.0% percentile) with 51 births per million, which is 1.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Melinda reached its peak popularity in 1971, achieving the 2.1% percentile (ranked #653) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 11 births per million (ranked 2.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1994.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Melinda".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Melinda. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 72.1% confident that Melinda is pronounced as muh-LIHN-duh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MEH-lihn-duh, at 14.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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