girls:
33 births since 1939
#5683 (1st percentile)
boys:
13 births since 2021
#4573 (0th percentile)
overall:
46 births since 1939
#7693 (1st percentile)
The name Mellow is the #7,693 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 46 recorded births since 1939. This represents the 0.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,683 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 33 births since 1939. For boys, it ranks #4,573 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 13 births since 2021.
Mellow first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1939 (1939 for girls and 2021 for boys). Birth data for Mellow is available in 6 out of the 85 years between 1939 and 2023 (5 years for girls and 2 years for boys). 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.
The name Mellow has been given predominantly to girls, with 71.7% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Mellow were girls.
For girls, Mellow reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #931) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Mellow ranks #945 for girls (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 71.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Mellow reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #928) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mellow".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Mellow is pronounced as MEH-loh, which has 2 syllables.
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