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Melvina

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Melvina has been given to 6,645 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1920, with 136 recorded.

Babies named Melvina, 2023

1 in 368,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Melvina: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Melvina means

Melvina is a given name.

The naming story behind Melvina

Wikidata records Melvina as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q115360167, 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, 6,645 girls were recorded with the name Melvina between 1880 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 136 in 1920; its best national rank was #305 in 1885.

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 Melvina?

Melvina had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 178,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
255,294 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Melvina 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 2023 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 255,294 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Melvina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Melvinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Melvina was born before 1934 — so the typical Melvina is around 91 today.

Median birth year
1934
About 91 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
15.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,256
People you could plausibly meet
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1920s — 15.9% of all recorded uses (1,058).

Is Melvina 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 1920 (136)
Years since peak
105
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#305
1885

Spellings of Melvina

Melvina is not the most common spelling — Melinda is, with 37.4% against Melvina's 1.8%.

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 Melvina is used

Across 1910–2025, Melvina was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 8,333 girls, against 1 in 82,123 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

012 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 8,333
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 16,667
  3. 3South Carolina1 in 25,000
  4. 4Oklahoma1 in 33,333
  5. 5Kentucky1 in 50,000
  6. 6New York1 in 50,000
  7. 7Alabama1 in 100,000
  8. 8Georgia1 in 100,000

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

Melvina around the world

Where Melvina 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 & Wales
    1997–2005
    #4,798
    in 2005
  • France
    1975–2024
    #7,189
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1948–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Melvina

People whose public names include Melvina, 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.

Melvina in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Melvina. Linked forms have their own page here.

MelvaMalvina

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Melvina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#305
1885
Peak year
1920
136 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
6,645
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Melvina

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

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Names with a curve like Melvina

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

LeathaBertaMargretDorcasAlethaLonaElizebethLetaJosefaRowenaAlvaFrank

Sibling names for Melvina

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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