MEL First Name Statistics by MyNameStats.com

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National statistics for the first name MEL
Statistic	MyNameStats	SSA Baby Name
Population Est.	26,852	2,985
National Rank	1,157	4,339
Percentile Rank	99.57%	95.31%
Proportion/100k	8.42	0.94
as Girl's Name		as Boy's Name
as First Name		as Last Name

Key Findings

Popularity: Mel is the 1,157th most popular first name in the U.S., placing it among the top 99.6% all first names.
Population: An estimated 27 thousand Americans bear the name Mel. Based strictly on 100 years of Social Security Administration (SSA) baby name records, the living population with this name is roughly 2985.
Frequency: Approximately 8 out of every 100,000 Americans are named Mel.
Usage: It is most often used as a boy's name (91% of the time).

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Race & Hispanic origin distribution of the people with the first name MEL
Race or Hispanic origin	% named MEL	% population	Visualization	% difference

Key Findings

Note: Data are estimates based on U.S. Census baseline comparisons. On the accompanying chart, blue vertical bars depict the distribution for people with the first name MEL, while yellow horizontal lines show the national average. Blue bars exceeding yellow lines indicate a higher likelihood than the general population.

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The first name MEL is included in the following name categories:

Common US surname - Census Bureau Data

US unisex baby name - Social Security Administration

Common US masculine given name - Census Bureau Data

Spanish hypocoristics masculine given name

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MEL CHEN MEL JOHNSON MEL SMITH MEL LEE MEL WILLIAMS MEL JONES MEL LI MEL BROWN MEL WANG MEL LIN MEL ANDERSON MEL MILLER MEL LIU MEL WONG MEL WU MEL HALL MEL CHAN MEL MARTIN MEL TAYLOR MEL ALLEN

Fun Fact: There are 3,894 unique last names associated with this first name MEL on MyNameStats.com.

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