# Melina (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/melina/  
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 | 19,926 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 19,926 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 839, 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 | 500 | 579 |
| 2012 | 440 | 646 |
| 2013 | 482 | 590 |
| 2014 | 496 | 596 |
| 2015 | 502 | 594 |
| 2016 | 490 | 614 |
| 2017 | 486 | 618 |
| 2018 | 471 | 635 |
| 2019 | 486 | 619 |
| 2020 | 445 | 648 |
| 2021 | 468 | 633 |
| 2022 | 460 | 641 |
| 2023 | 448 | 656 |
| 2024 | 469 | 631 |
| 2025 | 434 | 660 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 32 | 1,067 |
| 2012 | 21 | 1,483 |
| 2013 | 35 | 1,018 |
| 2014 | 19 | 1,562 |
| 2015 | 33 | 1,057 |
| 2016 | 37 | 975 |
| 2017 | 40 | 933 |
| 2018 | 39 | 936 |
| 2019 | 31 | 1,095 |
| 2020 | 52 | 710 |
| 2021 | 37 | 936 |
| 2022 | 57 | 655 |
| 2023 | 53 | 677 |
| 2024 | 54 | 696 |
| 2025 | 51 | 719 |

## People named Melina

- Melina Kanakaredes, American actress
- Mélina Robert-Michon, French discus thrower
- Melina Perez, American professional wrestler
- Melina Matsoukas, American music video, film, commercial and television director
- Melina Marchetta, Australian teen writer
- Melina Abdullah, American academic and civic activist (born 1972)
- Caron Wheeler, English singer

## 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.