Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls
In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Melanie yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Melanie peaked on count and rank simultaneously in 1972, hitting 6,295 births and rank 42 together, then losing 39% across the past ten years to land on 2,244 births and rank 122. The record opens in 1886 and totals 261,158 births. Every listed bearer is French, each written with an accent that American records drop: Mélanie Laurent, born 1983, Mélanie Thierry, the composer Mélanie Bonis, born 1858. That the file contains no Anglophone Melanie at all is striking for a name this common in the United States, and it reflects a broader bias in the enrichment source toward European figures. The 1972 peak sits within a decade of Gone with the Wind's long television afterlife, though the file offers nothing to confirm it.
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Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1886 | 8 | #874 |
| 1887 | 6 | #1,111 |
| 1889 | 7 | #1,094 |
| 1891 | 6 | #1,293 |
| 1892 | 8 | #1,146 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,580 |
| 1894 | 10 | #1,043 |
| 1895 | 7 | #1,385 |
| 1897 | 7 | #1,345 |
| 1898 | 11 | #1,080 |
| 1899 | 9 | #1,159 |
| 1900 | 13 | #1,088 |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,606 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,979 |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,597 |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,647 |
| 1906 | 8 | #1,511 |
| 1907 | 12 | #1,192 |
| 1908 | 11 | #1,321 |
| 1909 | 10 | #1,439 |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,883 |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,741 |
| 1912 | 20 | #1,203 |
| 1913 | 12 | #1,849 |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,792 |
| 1915 | 20 | #1,718 |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,330 |
| 1917 | 15 | #2,282 |
| 1918 | 22 | #1,789 |
| 1919 | 17 | #2,129 |
| 1920 | 26 | #1,651 |
| 1921 | 16 | #2,346 |
| 1922 | 18 | #2,161 |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,859 |
| 1924 | 13 | #2,765 |
| 1925 | 15 | #2,456 |
| 1926 | 20 | #1,972 |
| 1927 | 27 | #1,607 |
| 1928 | 20 | #1,945 |
| 1929 | 16 | #2,155 |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,645 |
| 1931 | 17 | #2,004 |
| 1932 | 16 | #2,103 |
| 1933 | 17 | #1,949 |
| 1934 | 9 | #3,084 |
| 1935 | 9 | #3,087 |
| 1936 | 13 | #2,351 |
| 1937 | 39 | #1,155 |
| 1938 | 53 | #982 |
| 1939 | 57 | #933 |
| 1940 | 200 | #480 |
| 1941 | 308 | #393 |
| 1942 | 388 | #356 |
| 1943 | 407 | #354 |
| 1944 | 308 | #410 |
| 1945 | 335 | #386 |
| 1946 | 410 | #376 |
| 1947 | 520 | #350 |
| 1948 | 955 | #242 |
| 1949 | 1,199 | #217 |
| 1950 | 1,026 | #237 |
| 1951 | 1,006 | #244 |
| 1952 | 1,351 | #211 |
| 1953 | 1,423 | #210 |
| 1954 | 1,859 | #178 |
| 1955 | 2,659 | #141 |
| 1956 | 2,692 | #143 |
| 1957 | 2,475 | #152 |
| 1958 | 2,534 | #157 |
| 1959 | 2,827 | #149 |
| 1960 | 3,661 | #125 |
| 1961 | 3,757 | #123 |
| 1962 | 4,281 | #106 |
| 1963 | 4,267 | #101 |
| 1964 | 3,941 | #105 |
| 1965 | 3,116 | #122 |
| 1966 | 3,050 | #116 |
| 1967 | 3,108 | #110 |
| 1968 | 3,643 | #94 |
| 1969 | 3,926 | #92 |
| 1970 | 4,330 | #91 |
| 1971 | 5,134 | #66 |
| 1972 | 6,295 | #42 |
| 1973 | 6,079 | #43 |
| 1974 | 5,483 | #51 |
| 1975 | 5,368 | #52 |
| 1976 | 5,241 | #53 |
| 1977 | 5,373 | #53 |
| 1978 | 4,996 | #54 |
| 1979 | 5,021 | #53 |
| 1980 | 4,840 | #60 |
| 1981 | 4,474 | #66 |
| 1982 | 4,255 | #65 |
| 1983 | 3,553 | #79 |
| 1984 | 3,515 | #85 |
| 1985 | 3,132 | #88 |
| 1986 | 2,973 | #97 |
| 1987 | 2,745 | #102 |
| 1988 | 2,834 | #99 |
| 1989 | 3,629 | #88 |
| 1990 | 3,813 | #86 |
| 1991 | 3,580 | #96 |
| 1992 | 3,353 | #98 |
| 1993 | 2,987 | #110 |
| 1994 | 2,679 | #120 |
| 1995 | 2,646 | #117 |
| 1996 | 2,663 | #119 |
| 1997 | 2,522 | #127 |
| 1998 | 2,461 | #135 |
| 1999 | 2,649 | #126 |
| 2000 | 2,968 | #114 |
| 2001 | 2,913 | #117 |
| 2002 | 3,484 | #94 |
| 2003 | 3,550 | #93 |
| 2004 | 3,583 | #89 |
| 2005 | 3,495 | #92 |
| 2006 | 4,034 | #85 |
| 2007 | 4,000 | #81 |
| 2008 | 3,714 | #85 |
| 2009 | 3,486 | #94 |
| 2010 | 3,486 | #82 |
| 2011 | 3,289 | #89 |
| 2012 | 3,467 | #77 |
| 2013 | 3,474 | #84 |
| 2014 | 3,699 | #81 |
| 2015 | 3,494 | #81 |
| 2016 | 3,490 | #82 |
| 2017 | 3,239 | #90 |
| 2018 | 2,850 | #105 |
| 2019 | 2,591 | #111 |
| 2020 | 2,527 | #105 |
| 2021 | 2,187 | #129 |
| 2022 | 2,172 | #130 |
| 2023 | 2,120 | #130 |
| 2024 | 2,244 | #122 |
