Girl
Melva
Melva is a girl's name meaning "Possibly related to mild". It was at its most popular in the 1920s and is rarely chosen now. As things stand now, it is a distinctive, less common pick. 1938 was this name's high-water mark in the U.S. birth records.
EtymologyVariant of Melba
EtymologyPossibly related to "mild"
Births by decade
1900s
384
1910s
1,585
1920s
2,789
1930s
2,769
1940s
2,480
1950s
1,977
1960s
1,041
1970s
554
1980s
244
1990s
116
2000s
34
2010s
16
Peaked in the 1920s · 13,989 total U.S. births since 1900