Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Melchior

#19,939 most common boys' name of all time · #52,443 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1915–2007

Rank among boys
#19,939
Rank overall
#52,443 of 105,966
First appeared
1915
Years on the list
8 of 146
All-time
48
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1915 #2,821
Best rank
#2,821 1915
Girls Boys peak 9/yr
19201940196019802000

Melchior first appears in 1915. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
2007 — 5 5 #12,533
1953 — 5 5 #4,058
1949 — 5 5 #3,966
1928 — 6 6 #3,954
1921 — 7 7 #3,745
1920 — 5 5 #4,603
1918 — 6 6 #3,984
1915 — 9 9 #2,821