How Many People Are Named Melvyn?
people named Melvyn are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 199,757 people in the US has this name
Based on 4,370 babies named Melvyn in Social Security records from 1912 to 2023, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
293 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of MELVIN.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Melvyn in English. Counting Melvyn and these spellings together, about 108,137 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Almost all of the babies given the name Melvyn (99.8%) were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Melvyn alive today is about 64 years old, and 68% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 49 and 84 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Melvyn first appears in the records in 1912 and was given most often in 1938, to 293 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2023.
Babies given the name each year, 1912 to 2023
🏆 Rank History
Melvyn has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #323, in 1938.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #323 (1938) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #516 in the 1940s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Melvyn alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Melvyn were born in New York than in any other state: about 265 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Melvyn was given 12.1 times as often in Hawaii, 4.7 times in New York and 2.3 times in California.
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