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Melany

#399 in 2025Girls' name

Black, dark, through Melanie

Melany has been given to 17,384 babies in the U.S. since 1942. In 2025 it ranked #399 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 779 recorded.

Babies named Melany, 2025

1 in 4,260

Melany over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Melany: meaning, origin, and history

Black, dark, through Melanie

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Melany means

Melany belongs to the name family reached through Melany → Melanie. Its meaning is “black, dark”.

Origin, language, and formation

Melany is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Melanie.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 17,379 girls were recorded with the name Melany between 1942 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 779 in 2025; its best national rank was #399 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #643 in 2020 to #399 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #485 in 2015 to #399 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Melany between 2006 and 2006. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2006; its best national rank was #13,344 in 2006.

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 Melany?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 4,260
779 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 2,060
0.05% of girls
Rank, 2025
#399
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
2,951 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Melany 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 1002%
School of 50011%

Put another way: gather 2,951 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Melany. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Melanys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Melany was born before 2011 — so the typical Melany is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
36.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
84.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
17,356
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 36.0% of all recorded uses (6,263).

Is Melany 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
+38
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+244
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+86
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.18×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (779)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#399
2025

Spellings of Melany

Melany is not the most common spelling — Megan is, with 43.2% against Melany's 1.7%.

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 Melany is used

Across 2016–2025, Melany was most concentrated in Maryland — about 1 in 1,316 girls, against 1 in 2,601 across all states with data. It was least common in Missouri (1 in 12,500).

876 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maryland1 in 1,316
  2. 2Texas1 in 1,667
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 1,754
  4. 4California1 in 1,923
  5. 5Florida1 in 2,000
  6. 6Arizona1 in 2,222
  7. 7Colorado1 in 2,273
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 2,273

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.

Geographically, Melany is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 45% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Melany around the world

Where Melany 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
    2004–2023
    #4,057
    in 2023
  • Ireland
    2019–2019
    #871
    in 2019
  • France
    1974–2023
    #5,791
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #2,672
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1973–1999
    #729
    in 1999

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS 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 Melany

People whose public names include Melany, 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.

Melany by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#399
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 244
Best rank ever
#399
2025
Peak year
2025
779 that year
First recorded
1942
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
17,379
Count in 2025
779

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#13,344
2006
Peak year
2006
5 that year
First recorded
2006
Last recorded
2006
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Melany

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

MelisaMelinaMelaniMelodieMelonyMelbaAilanyMellanyMelodyMelonieMeliaMellieMelodiMelvaMelaniaMeleahMelodeeMelenaMelizaMelindaStephanyMelvinaBritanyMelana

Names with a curve like Melany

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

DayanaJimenaJazlynFernandaMadelynnAinsleyAnyaLaneyLilianElleMadilynYareli

Sibling names for Melany

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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