Melvin
Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer2025 rank
#959
down −87 places
2025 births
243
down −34 births
All-time births
244,936
0% of them in 2025
More common than
100%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1928
- 4,249 births
- Best rank
- #47
- in 1926
- First recorded
- 1880
- #129 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1947
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 146 of 146
- unbroken
Top five years
- 19284,249#48Peak
- 19274,202#48
- 19264,194#47
- 19424,188#60
- 19474,169#85
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #47 in 1926 · peak births 4,249 in 1928
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 99% boys■ 1% girls
244,936 boys · 2,139 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 Melvin has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.