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Melvin
Pronounced /ˈmɛlvɪn/
Rank in 2024
#874
Born in 2024
275
Peak year
1928 · #48
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 275 boys were named Melvin, about 1 in every 6,238.
- It peaked in 1928 with 4,249 babies, ranked #48.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 244,676 boys have been named Melvin since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Melvin per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 3.4Greatest1901–27
- 3.4Silent1928–45
- 1.7Boomers1946–64
- 0.9Gen X1965–80
- 0.4Millennials1981–96
- 0.3Gen Z1997–12
- 0.2Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 56,582 babies, 3.38 per 1,000. Silent: 69,350 babies, 3.36 per 1,000. Boomers: 65,509 babies, 1.74 per 1,000. Gen X: 23,916 babies, 0.88 per 1,000. Millennials: 13,588 babies, 0.45 per 1,000. Gen Z: 9,251 babies, 0.29 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 3,964 babies, 0.18 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Variant of the Scottish surname Melville, from a place name Malleville in Normandy, from Latin mala (“bad”) + Old French ville (“settlement”). Used to Anglicize Mac Gille Beathain in Scotland and Ó Maoil Mhín in Ireland.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈmɛlvɪn/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Melvin, CC BY-SA 4.0.