Melba
About Melba
Australian opera singer Nellie Melba—self-named for her hometown of Melbourne—inspired this now-dated name more associated today with a peach dessert and dietetic toast.
Pronounced MEL-buh.
As of October 2026, Melba ranked #12736 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #202 in 1924.
Editor: Sophie Kihm
Sources: US popularity data is from the Social Security Administration. Meanings and origins are from Nameberry's name references.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | 0 |
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Melba on lists
Famous Melbas
- Melba Moore
stage name of Beatrice Melba Hill, American singer and actress
- Melba Montgomery
American country music singer
- Melba Doretta Liston
American jazz trombonist
- Melba Newell Phillips
American physicist
- Melba Pattillo Beals
American civil rights activist, who integrated the all,white Central High School as part of the "Little Rock Nine"
- Melba Padilla Maggay
Filipina author and anthropologist
- Melba Roy Mouton
American mathematician for NASA
- Nellie Melba
stage name of Helen Porter Mitchell, Australian operatic soprano
Melba in pop culture
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koala character in video game series "Animal Crossing"
- Melba
monster on Japanese TV series "Ultraman Tiga"
- Melba Toast
cracker named after Nellie Melba
- Peach Melba
dessert named after Nellie Melba