Masculine dossier · first seen 1904

Melford

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

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1921

Peak rank proxy

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Greatest Generation

1904Peak 19212024

Peak year

1921

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

1,175

Melford 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 1921, when 46 boys were named Melford.

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 1,175 Americans have been named Melford and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1904.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationGreatest Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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