Entry № 6731 · Greek origin

Melaney Melaney — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender

Girl

Origin

Greek

Meaning

"Dark-haired"

Syllables

First recorded

Traditional

The meaning

A name that means "dark-haired".

Melaney is a variant spelling of Melanie, meaning dark and dark-haired.

Dark-haired — a Greek name.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

Melaney

Transliteration: Melaney
Pronunciation: / /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Melaney stands.

Melaney does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Namesakes

Melaneys before her.

Real people

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In fiction

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Names connected to Melaney.

Numerology

The number behind Melaney.

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Melaney reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.