Meaning
We don’t have a verified meaning for Melville.
We only publish meanings we can cite to a source you could check yourself. Most sites will give you one anyway; the ones you find elsewhere are often copied between sites without verification.
Its story
Popularity since 1880
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See the 98 recorded years as a table
| Year | Per million |
|---|---|
| 1880 | 154 |
| 1881 | 60 |
| 1882 | 70 |
| 1883 | 105 |
| 1884 | 96 |
| 1885 | 93 |
| 1886 | 99 |
| 1887 | 99 |
| 1888 | 91 |
| 1889 | 136 |
| 1890 | 54 |
| 1891 | 79 |
| 1892 | 115 |
| 1893 | 89 |
| 1894 | 164 |
| 1895 | 162 |
| 1896 | 92 |
| 1897 | 62 |
| 1898 | 82 |
| 1899 | 104 |
| 1900 | 66 |
| 1901 | 75 |
| 1902 | 122 |
| 1903 | 117 |
| 1904 | 94 |
| 1905 | 76 |
| 1906 | 98 |
| 1907 | 61 |
| 1908 | 58 |
| 1909 | 98 |
| 1910 | 67 |
| 1911 | 75 |
| 1912 | 102 |
| 1913 | 72 |
| 1914 | 86 |
| 1915 | 79 |
| 1916 | 72 |
| 1917 | 65 |
| 1918 | 76 |
| 1919 | 57 |
| 1920 | 56 |
| 1921 | 51 |
| 1922 | 65 |
| 1923 | 53 |
| 1924 | 58 |
| 1925 | 38 |
| 1926 | 41 |
| 1927 | 47 |
| 1928 | 31 |
| 1929 | 38 |
| 1930 | 45 |
| 1931 | 31 |
| 1932 | 30 |
| 1933 | 40 |
| 1934 | 28 |
| 1935 | 33 |
| 1936 | 23 |
| 1937 | 29 |
| 1938 | 39 |
| 1939 | 22 |
| 1940 | 26 |
| 1941 | 20 |
| 1942 | 20 |
| 1943 | 14 |
| 1944 | 23 |
| 1945 | 20 |
| 1946 | 12 |
| 1947 | 10 |
| 1948 | 15 |
| 1949 | 16 |
| 1950 | 13 |
| 1951 | 12 |
| 1952 | 14 |
| 1953 | 8 |
| 1954 | 8 |
| 1955 | 6 |
| 1956 | 6 |
| 1957 | 5 |
| 1958 | 7 |
| 1959 | 5 |
| 1960 | 6 |
| 1961 | 4 |
| 1962 | 5 |
| 1963 | 5 |
| 1964 | 5 |
| 1965 | 6 |
| 1966 | 4 |
| 1967 | 3 |
| 1968 | 7 |
| 1969 | 6 |
| 1970 | 5 |
| 1971 | 3 |
| 1973 | 8 |
| 1976 | 4 |
| 1977 | 4 |
| 1978 | 3 |
| 1979 | 3 |
| 1981 | 3 |
Where it’s loved
Most popular in these states
Melville isn’t concentrated in any one state. Either it’s spread evenly, or no state reaches the 25 births over three years needed before a rate means anything.
More like it
More like Melville
Melville doesn’t share a sound pattern with any other boys name in this corpus — about 1 name in 100 doesn’t. There’s nothing to compare it to yet.
The numbers
Every figure
- Births in 1981
- 5
- Rank in 1981
- #6,262
- How rare
- 1 in 358,235 boys
- Since 1880
- 2,269
Melville was last recorded in 1981. Fewer than five boys have been given the name in any year since, which is the point below which the record stops reporting.
Most popular in 1894, at 164 per million boys born.
There isn’t enough data for a ten-year trend: Melville doesn’t appear in both ends of that window.
Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.