Melva
Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation2025 rank
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not recorded in 2025
2025 births
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All-time births
14,155
peak year 1938
More common than
98%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1938
- 308 births
- Best rank
- #372
- in 1937
- First recorded
- 1880
- #807 that year
- Last recorded
- 2024
- no later published record
- Average birth year
- 1939
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 123 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 1938308#378Peak
- 1929300#389
- 1937300#372
- 1932296#378
- 1923291#390
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #372 in 1937 · peak births 308 in 1938
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 0% boys■ 100% girls
30 boys · 14,155 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 Melva has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.