Melvis

Boy · recorded 1921–2002

  • 2002last recorded
  • 1942best year

Most popular in 1942.

Last recorded in 2002. Fewer than five boys a year have been given it since, so it's a true rarity.

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Meaning

We don’t have a verified meaning for Melvis.

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 1921

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Per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births are not in the record, so the line breaks rather than dropping to zero.
See the 8 recorded years as a table
Melvis, per million boys born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
YearPer million
19215
19226
19285
19355
19426
19513
19562
20023

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Melvis 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 Melvis

Melvis 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 2002
5
Rank in 2002
#10,667
How rare
1 in 388,302 boys
Since 1921
44

Melvis was last recorded in 2002. 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 1942, at 6 per million boys born.

There isn’t enough data for a ten-year trend: Melvis doesn’t appear in both ends of that window.

Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.