Meleane
Meleane Lolohea Pau'uvale is a Tongan educator, language activist, and community leader in New Zealand.
Meaning & Origin of Meleane
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Meleane Lolohea Pau'uvale is a Tongan educator, language activist, and community leader in New Zealand.
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The Story of Meleane
Meleane first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1985, with 6 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 2020: 9 births, good for #10,243 nationwide. About 34% of every Meleane on record arrived during the 2010s, its defining decade. Meleane last appeared in the published SSA data in 2020, with 9 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 95 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1980s to the 2020s.
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About the name Meleane
Meleane is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1985 and has accumulated 95 births in the dataset. Meleane's peak popularity came in 2020 when it ranked #10,243. Use the chart and map above to compare Meleane's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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