Melrose
Melrose is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 49 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 490.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 202449 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1902
- 1,191people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,140 girls have been named Melrose in the United States since 1902, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2024, with 49 births.
It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2024, within the last few years of data.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1944, and the 2010s alone account for 21%.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 51 boys have also been given it, 4.3% of the total.
By decade
| Decade | girls named Melrose | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 10 | |
| 1910s | 142 | |
| 1920s | 237 | |
| 1930s | 148 | |
| 1940s | 64 | |
| 1950s | 36 | |
| 1960s | 11 | |
| 2000s | 43 | |
| 2010s | 241 | |
| 2020s | 208 |
In 2024, its biggest year
Melrose was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2024 were Olivia, Emma, Amelia, Charlotte and Mia. See all of 2024.
Names that rose and fell with Melrose
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Eloisepeak 2024
- Arleepeak 2023
- Ellamaepeak 2021
- Roselinepeak 2022
- Solveigpeak 2021
- Evaleepeak 2017
- Ellouisepeak 1922
- Geneviepeak 1923
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.