Melania
Melania is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 130 births. Its best rank was 934th, in 2017.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1300.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 2017283 births
- Best rank
- #934in 2017
- Since 1913
- 3,372people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,372 girls have been named Melania in the United States since 1913, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2017, with 283 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2014, and the 2010s alone account for 42%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Melania | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 59 | |
| 1920s | 60 | |
| 1930s | 11 | |
| 1940s | 6 | |
| 1950s | 34 | |
| 1960s | 88 | |
| 1970s | 119 | |
| 1980s | 134 | |
| 1990s | 151 | |
| 2000s | 571 | |
| 2010s | 1,405 | |
| 2020s | 734 |
In 2017, its biggest year
Melania was the 934th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2017 were Emma, Olivia, Ava, Isabella and Sophia. See all of 2017.
Names that rose and fell with Melania
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Elliapeak 2017
- Aviapeak 2016
- Oonapeak 2015
- Amiliapeak 2023
- Alessapeak 2016
- Arinapeak 2017
- Prishapeak 2017
- Viviannepeak 2018
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.