Melania

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Melania: Recorded since 2006, its highest recorded position is #391, and it stood at #736 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
31times a registrar ranked it
19years from first to last
#391highest recorded position
3groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2006–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2006	#4157
2007	#2627
2009	#3031
2010	#4688
2011	#3549
2012	#2717
2013	#4050
2014	#2659
2015	#1961
2016	#1749
2017	#1105
2018	#1059
2019	#1017
2020	#1013
2021	#860
2022	#1180
2023	#1288
2024	#1491

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

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 18 of the 19 years from 2006 to 2024.

In 2024: #736 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1491 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 2006–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2006
First recorded at #4157 among girls in England and Wales in 2006 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1491 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Melania appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 18 years beginning in 2006, and has registered 329 births with the name.

Melania across 2 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.

Melania'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
England and Wales · Girls	#4157 (2006)	#860 (2021)	#1491 (2024)	18 of 19	329 (2006–2024)	41 (2021)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#758 (2010)	#444 (2020)	#736 (2024)	12 of 15	58 (2010–2024)	8 (2020)

Melania by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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 Melania in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	19	3 of 10	6
2010s	162	10 of 10	16
2020sbusiest	148	5 of 10	30

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 30 births a year.

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

Melania 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 2006 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #391 in Northern Ireland in 2023.

Melania'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	female	#1491	21	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1288	25	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1180	28	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#860	41	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1013	33	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1017	34	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1059	33	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1105	31	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1749	17	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1961	14	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2659	9	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#4050	5	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2717	9	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#3549	6	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#4688	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3031	7	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2627	8	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#4157	4	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#391	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#736	4	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#856	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#905	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#517	7	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#444	8	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#551	6	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#629	5	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#581	6	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#752	4	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#758	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
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 2006 and 2024, ranked in 18 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #391, first reached in 2023.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 41 births, registered in England and Wales in 2021.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2010, and 17 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.

Mela · #2488, 13y
Melani · #868, 13y
Melanie · #8, 61y
Melanija · #440, 10y

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.

Enid · #391, 21y
Eshaal · #391, 21y
Hali · #391, 20y
Arijus · #392, 17y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Eshaal · #391, 21y
Hali · #391, 20y
Arijus · #392, 17y
Cason · #392, 17y

Melania was ranked #391 in Northern Ireland · Girls 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.

Melania 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 Melania without appearing here.

Melania moved ahead of

Jayden Compare
In 2017 they stood at #4050 and #3536 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1059 and #5666.
Ellinor Compare
In 2011 they stood at #3549 and #3185 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #2717 and #5876.
Lorraine Compare
In 2014 they stood at #2659 and #2464 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #1961 and #4736.
Josefine Compare
In 2006 they stood at #4157 and #4157 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #2627 and #5201.

Moved ahead of Melania

Blake Compare
In 2010 they stood at #3031 and #3936 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #3549 and #2893.
Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1017 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1013 and #460.
Astrid Compare
In 2021 they stood at #517 and #764 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2022 that had become #905 and #458.
Ida Compare
In 2021 they stood at #517 and #661 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2022 that had become #905 and #502.

Moved the opposite way to Melania

Abigail Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Melania went from #4157 to #1491 while Abigail went from #23 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Melania went from #4157 to #1491 while Aimee went from #65 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Melania went from #4157 to #1491 while Aisling went from #1004 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Melania went from #4157 to #1491 while Alex went from #279 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Melania

Ada Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Melania went from #4157 to #1491 and Ada from #976 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Melania went from #4157 to #1491 and Alma from #1087 to #234.
Amelia Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Melania went from #4157 to #1491 and Amelia from #16 to #2.
Aria Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Melania went from #4157 to #1491 and Aria from #1280 to #35.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
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 2006 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #391 in Northern Ireland in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Melania

Melania at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Melania across 2 official records

Melania by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Melania appears in

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Melania at a glance

Melania across 2 official records

Melania by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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