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Melonie

#10,624 in 2025Girls' name

Black, dark, through Melanie

Melonie has been given to 5,462 babies in the U.S. since 1944. In 2025 it ranked #10,624 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1973, with 176 recorded.

Babies named Melonie, 2025

1 in 368,000

Melonie over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Melonie: meaning, origin, and history

Black, dark, through Melanie

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Melonie means

Melonie belongs to the name family reached through Melonie → Melanie. Its meaning is “black, dark”.

Origin, language, and formation

Melonie is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Melanie.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,462 girls were recorded with the name Melonie between 1944 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 176 in 1973; its best national rank was #765 in 1973.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,616 in 2020 to #10,624 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,679 in 2015 to #10,624 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 Melonie?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 179,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,624
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Melonie 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Melonie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Melonies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Melonie was born before 1975 — so the typical Melonie is around 50 today.

Median birth year
1975
About 50 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
26.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
14.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
5,413
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 26.9% of all recorded uses (1,468).

Is Melonie 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
−2,351
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−6,008
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,945
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.30×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
5.1%
Peak was 1973 (176)
Years since peak
52
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#765
1973

Spellings of Melonie

Melonie is not the most common spelling — Melanie is, with 79.1% against Melonie's 1.6%.

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 Melonie is used

Across 1910–2025, Melonie was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 54,136 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 25,000
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 25,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 25,000
  4. 4California1 in 33,333
  5. 5Florida1 in 33,333
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 33,333
  7. 7Georgia1 in 50,000
  8. 8Michigan1 in 50,000

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

Melonie around the world

Where Melonie 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.

  • Ireland
    1976–1976
    #497
    in 1976
  • France
    1997–2016
    #7,659
    in 2016
  • South Australia
    1971–1986
    #667
    in 1986

Popularity data from Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Notable people named Melonie

People whose public names include Melonie, 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.

Melonie by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,624
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 6,008
Best rank ever
#765
1973
Peak year
1973
176 that year
First recorded
1944
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,462
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Melonie

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

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Names with a curve like Melonie

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

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Sibling names for Melonie

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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