Name meaning & stats
Melinda
Melinda means “sweet, gentle (a coinage)”. 134,768 US babies since 1940, peak 1970.
What it means
“sweet, gentle (a coinage)”
Well documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 1970
134,768 US babies were named Melinda between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Melinda (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
Melinda is the main spelling
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 1970)