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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Melrose

Recorded for both sexesGen X

2025 rank

#3,880

down −672 places

2025 births

38

down −12 births

All-time births

1,180

3% of them in 2025

More common than

91%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2024
50 births
Best rank
#1,378
in 1926
First recorded
1902
#1,957 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1969
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
64 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 202450#3,208Peak
  2. 202048#3,263
  3. 201840#3,774
  4. 202338#3,960
  5. 202538#3,880

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #1,378 in 1926 · peak births 50 in 2024

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 4% boys■ 96% girls

51 boys · 1,180 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 Melrose has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.