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Baby name
Melanie
Girl
Origin of the name
Melanie comes from the Latin Melania, from the Greek melas, “black, dark.”
Classic name
262,640births since 1880
1970sgeneration
No. 42rank at its peak, in 1972
Where babies named Melanie are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Melanie is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Melanie is most common in Nevada (1.7 times), Utah (1.6) and Hawaii (1.4), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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