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Melvyn

The boy's name Melvyn has been in the national records since 1912, with 4,370 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 2023. About 1,700 Melvyns are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 76.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Melvyn boys named Melvyn

By the numbers

Total US births
4,370
Estimated living today
1,700
Median age today
76
Peak year
1938
Best rank
323rd
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1912
Girls / boys
10 / 4,360

How old the living Melvyns are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 4,370 babies given the name since 1912, about 1,700 are alive — 39 in every hundred. Roughly 120 of them are children and 1,100 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1949 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Melvyns

People named Melvyn with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Melvyn is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Melvyn is most concentrated in Hawaii (12.9×), New York (5.2×), Pennsylvania (1.9×), Illinois (1.7×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1938

The most popular boys’ names the year Melvyn peaked:

All the names of 1938

Melvyn elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France boys Melvyn +1 spelling 5,285 209th
Belgium boys Melvyn 71 648th
England and Wales boys Melvyn 43 2,964th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Melvyn: rank by region

In 2006, Melvyn was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Wallonia Melvyn 469 5

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

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Melvyn against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.