Melda
Melda is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192544 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1887
- 1,487people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,487 girls have been named Melda in the United States since 1887, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1925, with 44 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 44 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1930, and the 1920s alone account for 23%.
By decade
In 1925, its biggest year
Melda was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1925 were Mary, Dorothy, Betty, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1925.
Names that rose and fell with Melda
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Trulapeak 1923
- Alberthapeak 1922
- Cledapeak 1917
- Colettapeak 1924
- Veolapeak 1926
- Palmapeak 1925
- Mozellapeak 1920
- Freedapeak 1924
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.