About the name Melton
Melton belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Melton first appears in Social Security records in 1882. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #517 in 1888, and in 2024 0 babies received the name — 4,235 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.