Melvern
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Melvern has been given to 199 babies in the U.S. since 1913. 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 1930, with 12 recorded.
Babies named Melvern, 1950
1 in 500,000
Melvern 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Melvern?
Melvern had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1950, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1950
- 1 in 500,000
- 7 of 3,502,380 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 256,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1950
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 346,810 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Melvern sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1950 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 346,810 children born in 1950 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Melvern. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Melverns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Melvern was born before 1928 — so the typical Melvern is around 97 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1930s
- 36.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 59.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 7
- People you could plausibly meet
1930s — 36.2% of all recorded uses (72).
Is Melvern 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 1930 (12)
- Years since peak
- 95
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 25.4% average annual change
Spellings of Melvern
Melvern is not the most common spelling — Melvin is, with 97.2% against Melvern's 0.08%.
Melvern around the world
Where Melvern 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 Australia1947–1951#321in 1951
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Melvern by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Melvern
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Melvern
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.