Masculine dossier · first seen 1890

Melbourne

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Melbourne
Creator: Social Security Administration

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1922

Peak rank proxy

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Greatest Generation

1890Peak 19222024

Peak year

1922

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

1,012

Melbourne has moved from ordinary use into the archive. Its peak belongs most strongly to the Greatest Generation naming world, and its absence today gives the name the strange clarity of a cultural fossil.

Your name peaked in 1922, when 44 boys were named Melbourne.

No boys were recorded with this name in 2024 — at least not five of them (the SSA's reporting floor).

Down 100% from its peak.

All told, about 1,012 Americans have been named Melbourne and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1890.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationGreatest Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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