Melanie
Melanie places #142 across the country in 2025, as settled as a name gets. Its record runs from 1886 through a 1972 peak, 262,640 children in all.
What Melanie carries
Melanie · Greek
“black”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Melanie’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Melanie, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Melanie since 1886
Melanie peaked in 1972 at #42; #142 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Melanie is most common
The state that gives Melanie most often, per girls born there, is Delaware (0.4% in 2025); New Mexico and Mississippi are close behind.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Melanie
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Margaret
#112 in 2025 · Greek
Peter
#187 in 2025 · Greek
Andrea
#235 in 2025 · Greek
Andrew
#73 in 2025 · Greek
Milo
#119 in 2025 · Greek
Nicolas
#177 in 2025 · Greek
Nicholas
#112 in 2025 · Greek
Margot
#102 in 2025 · Greek
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About Melanie
How common is Melanie today?
Melanie places #142 across the country in 2025, as settled as a name gets. The full curve since 1886 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
Does Melanie have a meaning on record?
“black” is the meaning our source sets down, of Greek origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Which names sit near Melanie?
The recipe puts Margaret first, then Andrea, on shared origin, a peak within fifteen years, matching syllables and a shared first letter. Run the sibling matcher with your own names for a list scored against them.
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