Given name
Melaine
“a dark-skinned beauty”
Melaine is a variant of Melanie. One Greek interpretation is “a dark-skinned beauty.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Melaine is a variant of Melanie. One Greek interpretation is “a dark-skinned beauty.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Melaine is a variant of Melanie. Melanie has been associated with Old French, Latin, and Greek naming traditions.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1925. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Melaine through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 2,396
- 0 boys · 2,396 girls
- Most popular year
- 1981
- 83 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −83%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 7 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 83 in 1981. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,424 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Melaine’s family of names
Melaine has a related form in Melanie. In English usage, Melaine has a conventional equivalent in the German form Melanie. In French usage, Melaine has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Melaniusz.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Melaine
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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