Melene
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Melene has been given to 28 babies in the U.S. since 1950. 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 1957, with 7 recorded.
Babies named Melene, 2002
1 in 747,000
Melene 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Melene?
Melene had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2002, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2002
- 1 in 747,000
- 5 of 3,737,275 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 359,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2002
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 518,097 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Melene sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2002 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 518,097 children born in 2002 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Melene. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Melenes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Melene was born before 1966 — so the typical Melene is around 59 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 42.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 17.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 28
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 42.9% of all recorded uses (12).
Is Melene 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
- 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 1957 (7)
- Years since peak
- 68
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Melene
Melene is not the most common spelling — Helen is, with 49.4% against Melene's <0.01%.
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.
Melene around the world
Where Melene 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.
- France1994–2010#7,306in 2010
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Melene by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Melene
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Melene
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.