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Melany

Melany is a girl's name meaning "Greek melas, black, dark", drawing on Greek roots. It has been climbing steadily, peaking most recently in the 2010s. Today, it is on the rarer side without being unusual in the registry. Across the twelve decades this registry covers, it appears in 8 of them.

EtymologyVariant of Melanie
GreekGreek "melas" – "black, dark"
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
0
1920s
0
1930s
0
1940s
23
1950s
255
1960s
442
1970s
503
1980s
508
1990s
838
2000s
5,270
2010s
5,276
Peaked in the 2010s · 13,115 total U.S. births since 1900