Melba
Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation2025 rank
#12,736
down −942 places
2025 births
7
down −1 births
All-time births
34,873
0% of them in 2025
More common than
99%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1924
- 998 births
- Best rank
- #202
- in 1924
- First recorded
- 1893
- #1,256 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1935
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 121 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 1924998#202Peak
- 1925938#210
- 1922929#208
- 1923922#211
- 1926918#208
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #202 in 1924 · peak births 998 in 1924
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 0% boys■ 100% girls
52 boys · 34,873 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Melba has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.