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Melania

#1,172 in 2025Girls' name

English equivalent of Melanie

Melania has been given to 3,573 babies in the U.S. since 1913. In 2025 it ranked #1,172 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 283 recorded.

Babies named Melania, 2025

1 in 16,700

Melania over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Melania: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Melanie

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Melania means

Melania is a English equivalent of Melanie.

Origin, language, and formation

Melania is used in English, Faroese, Italian, Polish and Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Melanie.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Melania is pronounced /meˈla.nja/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,573 girls were recorded with the name Melania between 1913 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 283 in 2017; its best national rank was #934 in 2017.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,198 in 2020 to #1,172 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,111 in 2015 to #1,172 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Melania?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 16,700
198 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 8,120
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,172
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
11,607 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Melania sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5003%

Put another way: gather 11,607 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Melania. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Melanias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Melania was born before 2016 — so the typical Melania is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
39.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
81.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,437
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 39.3% of all recorded uses (1,405).

Is Melania 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
+412
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+26
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+939
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.15×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
70.0%
Peak was 2017 (283)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#934
2017

Spellings of Melania

Melania is not the most common spelling — Melanie is, with 48.5% against Melania's 0.66%.

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 Melania is used

Across 2016–2025, Melania was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 3,333 girls, against 1 in 7,885 across all states with data. It was least common in Maryland (1 in 50,000).

230 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 3,333
  2. 2Illinois1 in 3,846
  3. 3New York1 in 4,167
  4. 4Florida1 in 4,762
  5. 5California1 in 6,667
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 6,667
  7. 7Michigan1 in 8,333
  8. 8Washington1 in 9,091

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.

Melania around the world

Where Melania 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.

  • England & Wales
    2006–2025
    #1,315
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2017–2017
    #808
    in 2017
  • Northern Ireland
    2023–2023
    #391
    in 2023
  • Ireland
    2010–2024
    #736
    in 2024
  • France
    1927–2025
    #3,153
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1995–2024
    #1,709
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1961–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Melania

People whose public names include Melania, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Melania in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Melania. Linked forms have their own page here.

MelaniMelanieMélanieMelanijaMelānija

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Melania by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,172
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 26
Best rank ever
#934
2017
Peak year
2017
283 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,573
Count in 2025
198

Names similar to Melania

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

MelodeeMelonieMelonyMelviniaMelodieMelainaMelroseMelveniaMellieMelaniMelannyMilaniaMelodiMelannieMellisaMelyndaJeseniaMeleahMelaineLaviniaMelenaMelyssaMelvinaMelia

Names with a curve like Melania

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Melania, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

KamillaAmiliaRaylynnAlessaBeatrixRaleighJubileeViviannePrishaSailorEgyptRoselynn

Sibling names for Melania

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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