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Mellie

#7,378 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Melanie or Melinda or Melissa

Mellie has been given to 2,203 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #7,378 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1895, with 48 recorded.

Babies named Mellie, 2025

1 in 221,000

Mellie over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mellie: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Melanie or Melinda or Melissa

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mellie means

Mellie is a diminutive of Melanie or Melinda or Melissa.

Origin, language, and formation

Mellie is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Melanie, Melinda and Melissa.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Mellie is pronounced /ˈmɛli/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,203 girls were recorded with the name Mellie between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 48 in 1895; its best national rank was #389 in 1888.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,260 in 2020 to #7,378 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,628 in 2015 to #7,378 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 Mellie?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,378
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mellie 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mellie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mellies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mellie was born before 1918 — so the typical Mellie is around 107 today.

Median birth year
1918
About 107 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
16.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
295
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1910s — 16.9% of all recorded uses (373).

Is Mellie 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
+91
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+882
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,250
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.50×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
31.3%
Peak was 1895 (48)
Years since peak
130
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#389
1888

Spellings of Mellie

Mellie is not the most common spelling — Leslie is, with 12.6% against Mellie's 0.10%.

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 Mellie is used

Across 1910–2025, Mellie was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 191,304 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 100,000
  2. 2Georgia1 in 100,000
  3. 3Kentucky1 in 100,000
  4. 4Louisiana1 in 100,000
  5. 5Mississippi1 in 100,000
  6. 6South Carolina1 in 100,000
  7. 7Arkansas1 in —
  8. 8North Carolina1 in —

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. Mellie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mellie around the world

Where Mellie 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.

  • France
    1980–2023
    #4,914
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2024–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Mellie

People whose public names include Mellie, 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.

Mellie in other languages

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

Emalia

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

Mellie by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,378
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 882
Best rank ever
#389
1888
Peak year
1895
48 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,203
Count in 2025
15

Names similar to Mellie

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

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Names with a curve like Mellie

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

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Sibling names for Mellie

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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