Melanie Girl
How popular is Melanie?
#142 girl name in 2025
2,074 baby girls were named Melanie in the US in 2025, making it the 142nd most popular girl name.
Melanie popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #142 for girls (▼ 20 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 2,074 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-41% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #81 in 2015, #105 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1972 (6,296 girls) |
| Highest rank | #42 in 1972 |
| First recorded | 1886 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Melanie counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Melanie family of names ranked #102 for girls in 2025 (#96 the year before), with 3,176 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Melanie | 2,074 | 65% |
| Melany | 779 | 25% |
| Melani | 234 | 7% |
| Mehlani | 34 | 1% |
| Melannie | 18 | 1% |
| Melanny | 27 | 1% |
| Melahni | 5 | 0% |
| Mellanie | 5 | 0% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Melanie is most popular
Babies named Melanie per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- New Mexico: 2.8 per 1,000 (69 girls)
- Delaware: 2.8 per 1,000 (32 girls)
- Nevada: 2.5 per 1,000 (114 girls)
- California: 2.4 per 1,000 (2,058 girls)
- Texas: 2.1 per 1,000 (1,714 girls)
Melanie by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 21 | #828 |
| 1890s | 63 | #998 |
| 1900s | 79 | #1,052 |
| 1910s | 145 | #1,178 |
| 1920s | 183 | #1,586 |
| 1930s | 242 | #930 |
| 1940s | 5,029 | #217 |
| 1950s | 19,849 | #141 |
| 1960s | 36,751 | #92 |
| 1970s | 53,323 | #42 |
| 1980s | 35,952 | #60 |
| 1990s | 29,352 | #86 |
| 2000s | 35,228 | #81 |
| 2010s | 33,086 | #77 |
| 2020s | 13,337 | #105 |
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Questions
- Is Melanie a boy or girl name?
- Melanie is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Melanie were girls.
- How popular is the name Melanie?
- 2,074 baby girls were named Melanie in the US in 2025, making it the 142nd most popular girl name.
- When was Melanie most popular?
- Melanie peaked in 1972, when 6,296 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #42 in 1972.
- How many people are named Melanie?
- 263,254 babies have been named Melanie in the US since 1880. We estimate about 248,490 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 41.
- Where is Melanie most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Melanie was most common in New Mexico, at 2.8 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.