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Melton

Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Melton has been given to 4,235 babies in the U.S. since 1882. 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 1921, with 80 recorded.

Babies named Melton, 2015

1 in 740,000

Melton over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Melton: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Melton means

Melton is a given name.

The naming story behind Melton

Wikidata records Melton as a given name. The entity identifier is Q114055260, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,235 boys were recorded with the name Melton between 1882 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 80 in 1921; its best national rank was #517 in 1888.

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.

How common is Melton?

Melton had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015
1 in 740,000
5 of 3,701,574 births
Among boys only
1 in 383,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2015
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
513,148 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Melton sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2015 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 513,148 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Melton. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Meltons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Melton was born before 1942 — so the typical Melton is around 83 today.

Median birth year
1942
About 83 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
16.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,553
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1940s — 16.8% of all recorded uses (710).

Is Melton 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1921 (80)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#517
1888

Spellings of Melton

Melton is not the most common spelling — Melvin is, with 22.1% against Melton's 0.38%.

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 Melton is used

Across 1910–2025, Melton was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 39,990 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 16,667
  2. 2South Carolina1 in 16,667
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 20,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 20,000
  5. 5Alabama1 in 25,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in 25,000
  7. 7Oklahoma1 in 25,000
  8. 8Arkansas1 in 33,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Melton has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Melton around the world

Where Melton 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.

  • South Australia
    1946–1946
    #252
    in 1946

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Melton

People whose public names include Melton, 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.

Melton by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#517
1888
Peak year
1921
80 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
4,235
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Melton

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

MelitonMelvynGastonMaxtonDeltonAustonDentonWaltonBrytonFultonLawtonHustonKeltonHiltonAlstonLeytonSuttonNewtonWiltonFentonWintonBartonBrixtonHampton

Names with a curve like Melton

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

HaywardLoranReynoldWaymonTheadoreMaxieMeredithSherwoodBonnieBoyceAlfordEzell

Sibling names for Melton

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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