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Melbourne

Boys' name

From English Melbourne; literal meaning unconfirmed

Melbourne has been given to 1,012 babies in the U.S. since 1890. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1922, with 44 recorded.

Babies named Melbourne, 1989

1 in 549,000

Melbourne over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Melbourne: meaning, origin, and history

From English Melbourne; literal meaning unconfirmed

English

What Melbourne means

Melbourne is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Melbourne is used in Cebuano. Its origins include English.

Melbourne comes through English Melbourne.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,012 boys were recorded with the name Melbourne between 1890 and 1989. Its highest annual count was 44 in 1922; its best national rank was #984 in 1913.

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 Melbourne?

Melbourne had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1989, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1989
1 in 549,000
7 of 3,842,268 births
Among boys only
1 in 286,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1989
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
380,466 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Melbourne sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1989 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 380,466 children born in 1989 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Melbourne. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Melbournes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Melbourne was born before 1927 — so the typical Melbourne is around 98 today.

Median birth year
1927
About 98 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
32.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.6%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
111
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 32.4% of all recorded uses (328).

Is Melbourne 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1922 (44)
Years since peak
103
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#984
1913

Where Melbourne is used

Across 1910–2025, Melbourne was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 349,321 across all states with data. It was least common in Missouri (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Iowa1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5Minnesota1 in —
  6. 6Missouri1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Melbourne has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Melbourne by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#984
1913
Peak year
1922
44 that year
First recorded
1890
Last recorded
1989
All-time count
1,012
Count in 2025
Under 5

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

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Sibling names for Melbourne

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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