girls:
14 births since 1920
#5702 (0th percentile)
boys:
2.3k births since 1880
#2649 (42nd percentile)
overall:
2.3k births since 1880
#5519 (29th percentile)
The name Melville is the #5,519 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,283 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 28.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 28.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,649 (42.2% percentile) for all time with 2,269 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,702 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 14 births since 1920.
Melville has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1920 for girls). Birth data for Melville is available in 98 out of the 102 years between 1880 and 1981 (98 years for boys and 2 years for girls). 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 Melville has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Melville reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 13.6% percentile (ranked #459) with 73 births per million. The name was most common in 1894, with 152 births per million (ranked 6.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1981.
For girls, Melville reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #603) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1920, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1921.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Melville".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Melville. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 85.0% confident that Melville is pronounced as MEHL-vihl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MEHL-veel, at 15.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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