Melani

girls’ nameComeback · modern nameCompare

Melani is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 254 births. Its best rank was 990th, in 2020.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 2540.02% of girls
Peak year: 2020258 births
Best rank: #990in 2020
Since 1947: 5,676people given the name

Babies named Melani, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

5,676 girls have been named Melani in the United States since 1947, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2020, with 258 births.

This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2008, and the 2010s alone account for 26%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Melani
1940s	20
1950s	158
1960s	367
1970s	511
1980s	352
1990s	351
2000s	1,245
2010s	1,485
2020s	1,187

In 2020, its biggest year

Melani was the 990th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2020 were Olivia, Emma, Ava, Charlotte and Sophia. See all of 2020.

Names that rose and fell with Melani

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.