Melrose
#3,879 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Melrose has been given to 1,231 babies in the U.S. since 1902. In 2025 it ranked #3,879 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 50 recorded.
Babies named Melrose, 2025
1 in 87,200
Melrose 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Melrose?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 87,200
- 38 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 42,300
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #3,879
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 60,472 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Melrose sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 60,472 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Melrose. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Melroses were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Melrose was born before 1947 — so the typical Melrose is around 78 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 20.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 45.1%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 579
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 20.9% of all recorded uses (247).
Is Melrose 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
- −671
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −616
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +3,611
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.38×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 76.0%
- Peak was 2024 (50)
- Years since peak
- 1
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 42.1% average annual change
Where Melrose is used
Across 1910–2025, Melrose was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 323,522 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 100,000
- 2Georgia1 in 100,000
- 3North Carolina1 in —
- 4New York1 in —
- 5Pennsylvania1 in —
- 6Virginia1 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. Melrose has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Melrose around the world
Where Melrose 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.
- England & Wales2018–2023#5,688in 2023
- France2023–2023#6,015in 2023
- Canada2011–2021#3,151in 2021
- South Australia2008–2008#796in 2008
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Melrose by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Melrose
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Melrose
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.