Feminine dossier · first seen 1887

Melda

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

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1925

Peak rank proxy

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Greatest Generation

1887Peak 19252024

Peak year

1925

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

1,487

Melda 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 1925, when 44 girls were named Melda.

No girls 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 1,487 Americans have been named Melda and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1887.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationGreatest Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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