Mellie
Mellie is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 15 births. Its best rank was 389th, in 1888.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 150.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 189548 births
- Best rank
- #389in 1888
- Since 1880
- 2,188people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,188 girls have been named Mellie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1895, with 48 births.
The name has all but left use: 15 births in 2024, against 48 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1918, and the 1910s alone account for 17%. It has spent 34 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Mellie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 233 | |
| 1890s | 268 | |
| 1900s | 288 | |
| 1910s | 373 | |
| 1920s | 350 | |
| 1930s | 256 | |
| 1940s | 140 | |
| 1950s | 71 | |
| 1960s | 47 | |
| 1970s | 15 | |
| 1980s | 5 | |
| 2000s | 5 | |
| 2010s | 72 | |
| 2020s | 65 |
In 1895, its biggest year
Mellie was the 407th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1895 were Mary, Anna, Helen, Margaret and Elizabeth. See all of 1895.
Names that rose and fell with Mellie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Hattiepeak 1918
- Addiepeak 1920
- Lulapeak 1921
- Linniepeak 1921
- Medapeak 1915
- Nettiepeak 1918
- Fanniepeak 1918
- Birdiepeak 2023
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.