Melba

Modern invented name

Melba Origin and Meaning

The name Melba is a girl's name.

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.

Melba Rank in US Top 1000

# 903 in the US

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Famous People Named Melba

• 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

The name Melba in Pop Culture

• Melba popular singer who marries Malcolm in James Purdy's novel "Malcolm" (1959)
• Melba 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