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.

Melesia

#35,003 most common girls' name of all time · #56,298 across all names · 0% male / 100% female · used 1962–1980

Rank among girls
#35,003
Rank overall
#56,298 of 105,966
First appeared
1962
Years on the list
7 of 146
All-time
38
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1962 #5,844
Best rank
#5,844 1962
Girls Boys peak 7/yr
1980

Melesia first appears in 1962. 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
1980 6 — 6 #9,587
1974 5 — 5 #9,396
1971 5 — 5 #9,000
1966 5 — 5 #7,343
1965 5 — 5 #7,298
1964 5 — 5 #7,572
1962 7 — 7 #5,844