Melina

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Melina: Recorded since 1981, it reached #156 in 2015, and it stood at #234 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
75times a registrar ranked it
45years from first to last
#156highest recorded position
15groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1522
1997	#1958
1998	#1697
1999	#1393
2000	#1475
2001	#1107
2002	#1658
2003	#1843
2004	#1459
2005	#1690
2006	#1280
2007	#1443
2008	#1391
2009	#1139
2010	#840
2011	#1067
2012	#1483
2013	#1018
2014	#1562
2015	#1057
2016	#975
2017	#933
2018	#936
2019	#1095
2020	#710
2021	#936
2022	#655
2023	#677
2024	#696

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 Norway in 41 of the 45 years from 1981 to 2025.

In 2025: #234 among girls in Norway, #885 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1981–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1981
First recorded at #649 among girls in Norway in 1981 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1981–2025
Highest recorded position: #156 among girls in Norway, in 2015 (recorded 1981–2025).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #234 among girls in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Girls

Melina appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 41 years beginning in 1981, and has registered 630 births with the name.

Melina 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.

Melina'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 · Girls	#649 (1981)	#156 (2015)	#234 (2025)	41 of 45	630 (1981–2025)	39 (2015)
England and Wales · Girls	#1522 (1996)	#655 (2022)	#696 (2024)	29 of 29	788 (1996–2024)	57 (2022)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#862 (2008)	#862 (2008)	#885 (2025)	5 of 18	15 (2008–2025)	3 (2008)

Melina by decade in Norway · 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 Melina in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1980s	26	5 of 10	5
1990s	67	10 of 10	7
2000s	146	10 of 10	15
2010sbusiest	275	10 of 10	28
2020s	116	6 of 10	19

Across Norway · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 28 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Melina 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 1981 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #156 in Norway in 2015.

Melina'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	#696	54	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#677	53	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#655	57	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#936	37	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#710	52	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1095	31	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#936	39	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#933	40	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#975	37	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1057	33	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1562	19	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1018	35	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1483	21	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1067	32	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#840	42	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1139	27	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1391	20	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1443	18	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1280	20	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1690	13	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1459	15	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1843	10	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1658	11	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1107	18	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1475	12	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1393	13	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1697	10	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1958	8	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1522	11	High	Verified
2025	Norway	female	#234	18	High	Verified
2024	Norway	female	#218	20	High	Verified
2023	Norway	female	#231	19	High	Verified
2022	Norway	female	#217	19	High	Verified
2021	Norway	female	#234	17	High	Verified
2020	Norway	female	#201	23	High	Verified
2019	Norway	female	#176	30	High	Verified
2018	Norway	female	#172	31	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#248	21	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#238	23	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#156	39	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#227	25	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#192	30	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#205	28	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#189	30	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#282	18	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#196	31	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#293	17	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#239	23	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#233	23	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#315	14	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#456	7	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#427	8	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#398	9	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#383	10	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#618	4	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#572	5	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#409	9	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#575	5	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#536	6	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#420	9	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#414	9	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#538	6	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#614	5	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#562	6	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#532	7	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#679	4	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#581	6	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#492	8	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#658	4	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#649	4	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#885	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#876	3	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#907	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#862	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 1981 and 2025, ranked in 41 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #156, first reached in 2015.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 57 births, registered in England and Wales in 2022.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 27 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.

Melek · #544, 29y
Melia · #1343, 22y
Melinda · #33, 61y
Melis · #1160, 29y

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.

Moya · #153, 42y
Conn · #150, 44y
Sylwia · #150, 37y
Andrius · #149, 36y

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1980 and 1989.

Jemima · #157, 30y
Aya · #154, 35y
Eimhear · #154, 26y
Enya · #158, 37y

Melina was ranked #156 in Norway · Girls in 2015. 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.

Melina 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 Melina without appearing here.

Melina moved ahead of

Brittany Compare
In 2005 they stood at #1690 and #1500 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #1280 and #3548.
Pauline Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1843 and #1269 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #1459 and #2802.
Shannon Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1095 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #710 and #1846.
Kim Compare
In 2014 they stood at #1562 and #1562 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #1057 and #1961.

Moved ahead of Melina

Riley Compare
In 2013 they stood at #1018 and #1075 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #1562 and #763.
Ada Compare
In 2004 they stood at #1459 and #1617 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #1690 and #951.
Olive Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1107 and #1520 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #1658 and #1104.
Maja Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1107 and #1359 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #1658 and #1245.

Moved the opposite way to Melina

Aud Compare
Between 1981 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Melina went from #649 to #234 while Aud went from #292 to #427.
Bjørg Compare
Between 1981 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Melina went from #649 to #234 while Bjørg went from #157 to #369.
Camilla Compare
Between 1981 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Melina went from #649 to #234 while Camilla went from #6 to #279.
Eileen Compare
Between 1981 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Melina went from #649 to #234 while Eileen went from #295 to #501.

Moved the same way as Melina

Amanda Compare
Between 1981 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Melina went from #649 to #234 and Amanda from #513 to #52.
Andrea Compare
Between 1981 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Melina went from #649 to #234 and Andrea from #175 to #98.
Annie Compare
Between 1981 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Melina went from #649 to #234 and Annie from #516 to #214.
Elise Compare
Between 1981 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Melina went from #649 to #234 and Elise from #134 to #63.

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 1981 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #156 in Norway in 2015. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Melina

Melina at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Melina across 3 official records

Melina by decade in Norway · Girls

Melina appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1980s

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Melina and the names beside it

Melina moved ahead of

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Melina at a glance

Melina across 3 official records

Melina by decade in Norway · Girls

Melina appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Names published alongside Melina

Melina and the names beside it

Melina moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Melina

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