Name meaning & stats
Melba
Melba (English origin). 12,313 US babies since 1940, peak 1940.
What it means
No agreed meaning on record
English
A modern coinage.
In US birth records
Peak year: 1940
12,313 US babies were named Melba between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Melba (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Name twins (peaked around 1940)