Mellinda
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Mellinda has been given to 27 babies in the U.S. since 1967. 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 1970, with 6 recorded.
Babies named Mellinda, 1982
1 in 702,000
Mellinda 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Mellinda?
Mellinda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1982, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1982
- 1 in 702,000
- 5 of 3,507,638 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 339,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1982
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 486,263 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Mellinda sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1982 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 486,263 children born in 1982 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mellinda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Mellindas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Mellinda was born before 1975 — so the typical Mellinda is around 50 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 63.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 27
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 63.0% of all recorded uses (17).
Is Mellinda 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 1970 (6)
- Years since peak
- 55
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Mellinda
Mellinda is not the most common spelling — Melinda is, with 46.8% against Mellinda'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.
Mellinda around the world
Where Mellinda 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.
- France1972–2007#4,524in 2007
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Mellinda by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Mellinda
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Mellinda
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.