Fun Facts About the Name Melanii
- 49 babies named Melanii: U.S. records list 49 babies given the name Melanii from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Melanii Mean?
Melanii is a spelling variant of the feminine name Melanie, also found as Melani and, in its older form, Melania. These go back to the Greek word μέλας (melas), meaning "black, dark," whose feminine form is μέλαινα (melaina). From that root the Greeks formed the personal name Μελανία (Melania), which Latin took over as Melania. The literal sense is "black" or "dark," and it most likely described dark hair or coloring rather than carrying a symbolic meaning. The customary English gloss, "dark," is a direct translation of the Greek root, not a later reinterpretation.
Melanii Name History & Origins
The name is recorded in Greek as Μελανία and in Latin as Melania. It was borne by two early Christian saints of the same Roman family: Melania the Elder (c. 350 - 410), who founded a monastery on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, and her granddaughter Melania the Younger (c. 383 - 439), who gave away her wealth and established religious houses in North Africa and Jerusalem. Christian calendars and Greek and Latin usage kept the name in circulation, and it passed into the Romance languages as French Mélanie, Italian Melania, and Spanish Melania.
English speakers took up the name in the modern period, most often in the French-derived spelling Melanie. It also appears in Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone with the Wind (1936), where the character Melanie Hamilton gives the spelling wide recognition. Melanii is a later ornamental respelling of the same name, with a doubled final i; it has no separate etymology or independent origin. Variants of this kind normally keep the established pronunciation.
How Popular is the Name Melanii?
Melanii has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2019. Its best rank was #11,075 in 2019.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #16,464 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2023 | #16,783 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2022 | #16,904 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2021 | #16,852 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2020 | #13,021 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2019 | #11,075 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2018 | #15,028 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 2017 | #13,626 | 7 | 0.0004% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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