Melrose
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- MEL-rohz
- Origin
- Celtic
- US rank, 2025
- #3,831 for girls
Melrose is a girls' name of Celtic origin, meaning “bare moor”. In 2025 it ranked 3,831st for girls in the US (38 babies).
What does Melrose mean?
Celtic: Scottish place name, from Brittonic
“bare moor”
Melrose is a town in the Scottish Borders whose ruined abbey is said to hold the heart of Robert the Bruce.
Is Melrose a girl's or a boy's name?
Melrose is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 38 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Melrose in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,831st among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 38 about 1 in 42,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 12% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 38 girls in the US were named Melrose, making it the 3,831st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,221st. Its busiest year was 2024, with 50 girls. It first appears in the records in 1902.
Half of all the girls named Melrose in the US since 1880 were born between 1926 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 1927, 79% of the babies named Melrose in the US were girls.
Melrose in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 38 | #3,831 |
| 2024 | 50 | #3,176 |
| 2023 | 38 | #3,909 |
| 2022 | 36 | #4,039 |
| 2021 | 37 | #3,933 |
| 2020 | 48 | #3,221 |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,304 |
| 2018 | 40 | #3,738 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,189 |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,733 |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,263 |
| 2014 | 30 | #4,655 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,642 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,112 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,146 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,510 |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,675 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,525 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,535 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,601 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 0 | – |
| 1978 | 0 | – |
| 1977 | 0 | – |
| 1976 | 0 | – |
| 1975 | 0 | – |
| 1974 | 0 | – |
| 1973 | 0 | – |
| 1972 | 0 | – |
| 1971 | 0 | – |
| 1970 | 0 | – |
| 1969 | 0 | – |
| 1968 | 0 | – |
| 1967 | 0 | – |
| 1966 | 0 | – |
| 1965 | 0 | – |
| 1964 | 0 | – |
| 1963 | 0 | – |
| 1962 | 6 | #5,859 |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,566 |
| 1960 | 0 | – |
| 1959 | 0 | – |
| 1958 | 0 | – |
| 1957 | 0 | – |
| 1956 | 0 | – |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,207 |
| 1954 | 0 | – |
| 1953 | 11 | #3,479 |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,795 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,413 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,299 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,243 |
| 1948 | 0 | – |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,238 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,664 |
| 1945 | 0 | – |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,138 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,492 |
| 1942 | 0 | – |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,844 |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,296 |
| 1939 | 15 | #2,125 |
| 1938 | 17 | #1,945 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,145 |
| 1936 | 18 | #1,801 |
| 1935 | 17 | #1,917 |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,288 |
| 1933 | 14 | #2,160 |
| 1932 | 13 | #2,363 |
| 1931 | 17 | #1,940 |
| 1930 | 16 | #2,109 |
| 1929 | 18 | #1,952 |
| 1928 | 26 | #1,588 |
| 1927 | 27 | #1,586 |
| 1926 | 34 | #1,356 |
| 1925 | 20 | #1,945 |
| 1924 | 18 | #2,136 |
| 1923 | 17 | #2,169 |
| 1922 | 31 | #1,464 |
| 1921 | 25 | #1,723 |
| 1920 | 21 | #1,889 |
| 1919 | 27 | #1,527 |
| 1918 | 24 | #1,645 |
| 1917 | 19 | #1,847 |
| 1916 | 26 | #1,445 |
| 1915 | 14 | #2,142 |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,264 |
| 1913 | 9 | #2,163 |
| 1912 | 13 | #1,540 |
| 1911 | 0 | – |
| 1910 | 0 | – |
| 1909 | 0 | – |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,101 |
| 1907 | 0 | – |
| 1906 | 0 | – |
| 1905 | 0 | – |
| 1904 | 0 | – |
| 1903 | 0 | – |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,792 |
Nicknames for Melrose
Names like Melrose
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Marceline, Charlotte, Maple, Millie, Eloise, Olive, Lucille, Alice, Adeline, Maxine, Clementine, Estelle
Names related to Melrose
More Celtic names
Arthur, Imogen, Gael, Harvey, Alana, Alan, Tristan, Vienna, Lana, Alaina, Sabrina, Alanna, Bryce, Devon, Arturo, Alannah
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Melrose: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/melrose, updated 20 October 2026.