Given name
Mellony
“a dark-skinned beauty”
Mellony connects to the Melanie name family through Melony. One Greek interpretation is “a dark-skinned beauty.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Mellony connects to the Melanie name family through Melony. One Greek interpretation is “a dark-skinned beauty.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Mellony connects to the Melanie name family through Melony. 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 1954. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mellony through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 146
- 0 boys · 146 girls
- Most popular year
- 1972
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2018. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 10 in 1972. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 235 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.
Mellony’s family of names
In English usage, Mellony has a conventional equivalent in the German form Melanie. Mellony has a related form in Melony.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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