Melicent

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Melicent has been given to 55 babies in the U.S. since 1916. 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 1925, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Melicent, 1970

1 in 721,000

Melicent over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Melicent: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Melicent means

Melicent is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Melicent is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 55 girls were recorded with the name Melicent between 1916 and 1970. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1925; its best national rank was #4,068 in 1943.

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.

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How common is Melicent?

Melicent had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1970, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1970: 1 in 721,000; 5 of 3,606,302 births
Among girls only: 1 in 350,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1970: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 499,941 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Melicent 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 1970 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 499,941 children born in 1970 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Melicent. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Melicents were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Melicent was born before 1932 — so the typical Melicent is around 93 today.

Median birth year: 1932; About 93 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 30.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 27.3%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 10; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 30.9% of all recorded uses (17).

Is Melicent 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 1925 (7)
Years since peak: 100; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #4,068; 1943

Spellings of Melicent

Melicent is not the most common spelling — Millicent is, with 99.5% against Melicent's 0.46%.

Millicent99.5%11,825
Melicent0.46%55

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.

Melicent by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #4,068; 1943
Peak year: 1925; 7 that year
First recorded: 1916
Last recorded: 1970
All-time count: 55
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Melicent

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

Melianna Mellicent Melanii Melaysia Melodii Melanin Melahni Meleane Mellina Melaher Melayah Meleigha Mellow Melloney Melantha Melainie Melissie Mellinda Crescent Alicent Mellissia Mellani Meliana Mellonie

Sibling names for Melicent

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

For a sister

Concepcion Easter Gene Rosina Kattie Lavon Blanch Jaunita

For a brother

Domenick Hosea Rollin Alvis Jewel Eldridge Lenard Lacy

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