The name Melville is of English origin, and means mill town.
The table below indicates the number of times the name Melville has been given to baby boys in recent years.
The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004.
The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.
Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Melville
Use of the Name Melville for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years
50 Years
25 Years
10 Years
5 Years
2 Years
1 Year
1,287
0
0
0
0
0
0
The table below indicates the number of times the name Melville has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004.
Melville last appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1938, the last year shown on the table.
A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.
Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Melville
Used as a Boy Name
Used as a Girl Name
Year
Rank
Count
Rank
Count
1880
436
17
1881
838
6
1882
736
8
1883
580
11
1884
592
11
1885
625
10
1886
593
11
1887
617
10
1888
632
11
1889
491
15
1890
959
6
1891
747
8
1892
564
14
1893
688
10
1894
454
19
1895
469
19
1896
707
11
1897
908
7
1898
728
10
1899
646
11
1900
888
10
1901
829
8
1902
575
15
1903
606
14
1904
712
12
1905
824
10
1906
698
13
1907
978
9
1908
999
9
1909
700
16
1910
914
13
1911
808
17
1912
633
44
1913
785
37
1914
677
57
1915
730
67
1916
789
62
1917
826
60
1918
734
77
1919
890
56
1920
893
60
1921
942
56
1922
793
72
1923
888
59
1924
861
64
1925
1926
1927
954
53
1928
1929
1930
974
49
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
971
43
Totals:
1,287
0
During the last 125 years, parents have used Melville as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name.
Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Melville appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 48 times during the last 125 years.