Melana
#11,570 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Melana has been given to 844 babies in the U.S. since 1947. In 2025 it ranked #11,570 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2004, with 71 recorded.
Babies named Melana, 2025
1 in 414,000
Melana over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Melana?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 414,000
- 8 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 201,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #11,570
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 287,238 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Melana sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Melana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Melanas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Melana was born before 1999 — so the typical Melana is around 26 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 32.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 47.4%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 834
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 32.6% of all recorded uses (275).
Is Melana rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +205
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 11.3%
- Peak was 2004 (71)
- Years since peak
- 21
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 40.3% average annual change
Spellings of Melana
Melana is not the most common spelling — Megan is, with 25.9% against Melana's 0.05%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Melana is used
Across 1910–2025, Melana was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,775,119 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2New York1 in —
- 3Ohio1 in —
- 4Texas1 in —
- 5Wisconsin1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Melana has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Melana around the world
Where Melana ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- France2006–2016#6,988in 2016
- South Australia1975–2004#700in 2004
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Melana by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Melana
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Melana
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.