# Melania (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/melania/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 3,573 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 3,573 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 353, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 99 | 1,996 |
| 2012 | 100 | 1,967 |
| 2013 | 97 | 2,010 |
| 2014 | 78 | 2,365 |
| 2015 | 92 | 2,111 |
| 2016 | 131 | 1,653 |
| 2017 | 283 | 934 |
| 2018 | 233 | 1,084 |
| 2019 | 210 | 1,148 |
| 2020 | 192 | 1,198 |
| 2021 | 154 | 1,414 |
| 2022 | 145 | 1,501 |
| 2023 | 113 | 1,799 |
| 2024 | 133 | 1,584 |
| 2025 | 198 | 1,172 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 6 | 3,549 |
| 2012 | 9 | 2,717 |
| 2013 | 5 | 4,050 |
| 2014 | 9 | 2,659 |
| 2015 | 14 | 1,961 |
| 2016 | 17 | 1,749 |
| 2017 | 31 | 1,105 |
| 2018 | 33 | 1,059 |
| 2019 | 34 | 1,017 |
| 2020 | 33 | 1,013 |
| 2021 | 41 | 860 |
| 2022 | 28 | 1,180 |
| 2023 | 25 | 1,288 |
| 2024 | 21 | 1,491 |
| 2025 | 24 | 1,315 |

## In other languages

- Armenian: Մելանիա, Մելինե
- Chinese: 梅拉尼婭 /梅拉尼娅
- French: Mélanie
- Italian: Melania
- Latin: Melania
- Polish: Melania
- Russian: Мелания
- Spanish: Melania
- Ukrainian: Мела́нія

## People named Melania

- Melania Trump, First Lady of the United States (2017–2021; since 2025)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.