Melvin

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Melvin: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Melvin: Recorded since 1948, with a gap of 10 years, its highest recorded position is #119, and it stood at #135 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
71times a registrar ranked it
78years from first to last
#119highest recorded position
17groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Melvin's record

Absent from every published list for 10 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1235
1997	#1454
1998	#1367
1999	#1505
2000	#1167
2001	#1286
2002	#1519
2003	#1248
2004	#1038
2005	#1246
2006	#1469
2007	#1440
2008	#1343
2009	#1302
2010	#1801
2011	#1788
2012	#2117
2013	#1539
2014	#1370
2015	#2707
2016	#2335
2017	#1289
2018	#3011
2019	#1986
2020	#2682
2021	#2125
2022	#1692
2023	#1461
2024	#1322

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 29 of the 78 years from 1948 to 2025.

In 2024: #161 among boys in Norway, #785 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #1322 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1948–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1948
First recorded at #336 among boys in Norway in 1948 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1948–2025
Highest recorded position: #119 among boys in Norway, in 2023 (recorded 1948–2025).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #135 among boys in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Boys

Melvin appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1948, and has registered 515 births with the name.

Melvin across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Melvin's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Boys	#336 (1948)	#119 (2023)	#135 (2025)	29 of 78	515 (1948–2025)	49 (2023)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#305 (1970)	#265 (1975)	#785 (2024)	13 of 55	48 (1970–2024)	6 (2009)
England and Wales · Boys	#1235 (1996)	#1038 (2004)	#1322 (2024)	29 of 29	366 (1996–2024)	20 (2017)

Melvin by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Melvin in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	35	4 of 10	9
2000sbusiest	143	10 of 10	14
2010s	120	10 of 10	12
2020s	68	5 of 10	14

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 14 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Melvin appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1948 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #119 in Norway in 2023.

Melvin's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#1322	20	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1461	17	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1692	14	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#2125	10	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2682	7	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1986	11	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#3011	6	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1289	20	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#2335	9	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#2707	7	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1370	18	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1539	15	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#2117	10	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1788	12	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1801	12	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1302	18	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1343	17	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1440	15	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1469	13	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1246	16	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1038	19	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1248	13	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1519	9	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1286	11	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1167	12	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1505	8	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1367	9	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1454	8	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1235	10	High	Verified
2025	Norway	male	#135	43	High	Verified
2024	Norway	male	#161	31	High	Verified
2023	Norway	male	#119	49	High	Verified
2022	Norway	male	#127	43	High	Verified
2021	Norway	male	#196	23	High	Verified
2020	Norway	male	#173	26	High	Verified
2019	Norway	male	#222	22	High	Verified
2018	Norway	male	#178	32	High	Verified
2017	Norway	male	#235	21	High	Verified
2016	Norway	male	#228	23	High	Verified
2015	Norway	male	#240	22	High	Verified
2014	Norway	male	#207	27	High	Verified
2013	Norway	male	#312	14	High	Verified
2012	Norway	male	#393	9	High	Verified
2011	Norway	male	#304	14	High	Verified
2010	Norway	male	#244	20	High	Verified
2009	Norway	male	#320	14	High	Verified
2008	Norway	male	#368	11	High	Verified
2007	Norway	male	#372	10	High	Verified
2006	Norway	male	#362	10	High	Verified
2005	Norway	male	#373	9	High	Verified
2004	Norway	male	#518	5	High	Verified
2003	Norway	male	#546	4	High	Verified
2002	Norway	male	#382	8	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#630	4	High	Verified
1959	Norway	male	#466	4	High	Verified
1956	Norway	male	#374	6	High	Verified
1952	Norway	male	#369	5	High	Verified
1948	Norway	male	#336	6	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#785	3	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	male	#472	6	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	male	#451	3	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	male	#282	4	High	Verified
1982	Republic of Ireland	male	#330	3	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	male	#288	4	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	male	#324	3	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	male	#293	4	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	male	#265	5	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	male	#321	3	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	male	#320	3	High	Verified
1971	Republic of Ireland	male	#280	4	High	Verified
1970	Republic of Ireland	male	#305	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1948 and 2025, ranked in 45 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #119, first reached in 2023.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 49 births, registered in Norway in 2023.

Its record falls into 11 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 10 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1970, and 48 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Melody-Rose · #2187, 15y
Memphis · #1124, 25y
Mena · #440, 23y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Jonatan · #119, 44y
Meghan · #119, 41y
Pascal · #116, 46y
Siofra · #116, 48y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Audhild · #119, 42y
Torfinn · #119, 50y
Ahmad · #118, 76y
Borgny · #120, 27y

Melvin was ranked #119 in Norway · Boys in 2023. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Melvin and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Melvin without appearing here.

Melvin moved ahead of

Kelly Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3011 and #3011 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #1986 and #4702.
Graeme Compare
In 1999 they stood at #1505 and #1281 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #1167 and #2501.
Brent Compare
In 2005 they stood at #1246 and #1095 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1469 and #2538.
Kim Compare
In 2002 they stood at #1519 and #1519 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #1248 and #2189.

Moved ahead of Melvin

Tadhg Compare
In 2014 they stood at #1370 and #1630 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #2707 and #996.
Aksel Compare
In 2017 they stood at #1289 and #1812 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #3011 and #1382.
Leif Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1986 and #2104 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #2682 and #1548.
Arlo Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1286 and #1949 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #1519 and #848.

Moved the opposite way to Melvin

Anders Compare
Between 1948 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Melvin went from #336 to #135 while Anders went from #62 to #293.
Arild Compare
Between 1948 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Melvin went from #336 to #135 while Arild went from #24 to #489.
Arne Compare
Between 1948 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Melvin went from #336 to #135 while Arne went from #6 to #222.
Bjørn Compare
Between 1948 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Melvin went from #336 to #135 while Bjørn went from #3 to #56.

Moved the same way as Melvin

Aksel Compare
Between 1948 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Melvin went from #336 to #135 and Aksel from #184 to #25.
Alexander Compare
Between 1948 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Melvin went from #336 to #135 and Alexander from #320 to #81.
Alfred Compare
Between 1948 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Melvin went from #336 to #135 and Alfred from #152 to #26.
Arthur Compare
Between 1948 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Melvin went from #336 to #135 and Arthur from #167 to #83.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1948 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #119 in Norway in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Melvin

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Popularity journey

Melvin across 3 official records

Melvin by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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What stands out in Melvin's record

Melvin across 3 official records

Melvin by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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