Melba
A unisex name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 8 babies a year in the US.
Melba by the numbers
Melba was given to 8 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 998 babies in 1924, so it is a 1920s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Melba
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
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