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How popular is the name Melinda?
Births per year, rank history and how many Melindas are alive today.
Melinda (female) is a rare girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 2772nd in 2024 and given to 9 babies. The name peaked in 2009, when 15 babies were given the name, the 1752nd most popular that year.
The Melinda you are most likely to meet is around 16 years old - or else around 3: the name has two living generations. Half of all Melindas born in England and Wales are between 12 and 29, and there are at least 340 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Melinda - on average, only one in every 927 such rooms contains a Melinda.
How many babies are named Melinda each year?
Where does Melinda rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Melinda most popular?
Melinda peaked in 2009, when 15 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Melinda?
At least 340 people named Melinda born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Melinda?
Most living Melindas are between 12 and 29; the most common age is about 16. There is a second cluster around 3.
Is Melinda becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.