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Melynda

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Melynda has been given to 2,723 babies in the U.S. since 1943. 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 1973, with 100 recorded.

Babies named Melynda, 2021

1 in 678,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Melynda: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Melynda means

Melynda is a given name.

The naming story behind Melynda

Wikidata records Melynda as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q98827041, 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, 2,723 girls were recorded with the name Melynda between 1943 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 100 in 1973; its best national rank was #1,126 in 1973.

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 Melynda?

Melynda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 678,000
5 of 3,389,958 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,949 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Melynda 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 2021 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 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Melynda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Melyndas were born

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

Median birth year
1975
About 50 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
32.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,684
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 32.3% of all recorded uses (879).

Is Melynda 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 1973 (100)
Years since peak
52
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,126
1973

Spellings of Melynda

Melynda is not the most common spelling — Melinda is, with 38.2% against Melynda's 0.76%.

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 Melynda is used

Across 1910–2025, Melynda was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 149,054 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 100,000
  3. 3Michigan1 in 100,000
  4. 4New Mexico1 in 100,000
  5. 5Ohio1 in 100,000
  6. 6Tennessee1 in 100,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 100,000
  8. 8Utah1 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. Melynda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Melynda around the world

Where Melynda 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.

  • France
    1967–2025
    #5,902
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–1996
    #1,669
    in 1996
  • South Australia
    1996–1996
    #712
    in 1996

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

Melynda 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
#1,126
1973
Peak year
1973
100 that year
First recorded
1943
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
2,723
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Melynda

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

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Names with a curve like Melynda

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

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Sibling names for Melynda

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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