Melina Girl
How popular is Melina?
#660 girl name in 2025
434 baby girls were named Melina in the US in 2025, making it the 660th most popular girl name.
Melina popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #660 for girls (▼ 30 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 434 girls |
| 10-year trend | Steady (-14% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #594 in 2015, #648 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2009 (681 girls) |
| Highest rank | #456 in 2009 |
| First recorded | 1883 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.3% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Melina counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Melina family of names ranked #615 for girls in 2025 (#596 the year before), with 451 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Melina | 434 | 96% |
| Melyna | 6 | 1% |
| Melinna | 6 | 1% |
| Mellina | 5 | 1% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Melina is most popular
Babies named Melina per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Nevada: 0.6 per 1,000 (28 girls)
- Connecticut: 0.6 per 1,000 (35 girls)
- Arizona: 0.6 per 1,000 (81 girls)
- Massachusetts: 0.6 per 1,000 (69 girls)
- California: 0.5 per 1,000 (430 girls)
Melina by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 17 | #842 |
| 1890s | 36 | #1,236 |
| 1900s | 40 | #1,261 |
| 1910s | 82 | #1,935 |
| 1920s | 57 | #2,707 |
| 1930s | 16 | #4,045 |
| 1940s | 34 | #2,636 |
| 1950s | 118 | #2,698 |
| 1960s | 616 | #990 |
| 1970s | 1,104 | #891 |
| 1980s | 1,634 | #804 |
| 1990s | 3,089 | #583 |
| 2000s | 5,413 | #456 |
| 2010s | 4,946 | #503 |
| 2020s | 2,724 | #630 |
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Questions
- Is Melina a boy or girl name?
- Melina is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Melina were girls.
- How popular is the name Melina?
- 434 baby girls were named Melina in the US in 2025, making it the 660th most popular girl name.
- When was Melina most popular?
- Melina peaked in 2009, when 681 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #456 in 2009.
- How many people are named Melina?
- 19,926 babies have been named Melina in the US since 1880. We estimate about 19,352 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 20.
- Where is Melina most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Melina was most common in Nevada, at 0.6 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.