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.

Melenda

#25,463 most common girls' name of all time · #41,321 across all names · 0% male / 100% female · used 1958–1986

Rank among girls
#25,463
Rank overall
#41,321 of 105,966
First appeared
1958
Years on the list
15 of 146
All-time
95
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1971 #5,404
Best rank
#5,395 1958
Girls Boys peak 10/yr
19601980

Melenda first appears in 1958. 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
1986 5 — 5 #11,455
1981 5 — 5 #10,978
1980 7 — 7 #8,530
1979 9 — 9 #6,961
1978 5 — 5 #10,290
1976 5 — 5 #9,880
1973 9 — 9 #5,851
1972 7 — 7 #6,921
1971 10 — 10 #5,404
1969 5 — 5 #8,093
1968 6 — 6 #6,713
1967 5 — 5 #7,423
1962 5 — 5 #7,312
1960 5 — 5 #7,108
1958 7 — 7 #5,395