Melody

What Melody means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Melody yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Up from #148 in 2015 to #79 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 520 US girls in the 2025 records Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Melody?

US: Rising: up from #148 in 2015. England & Wales: Steady: #269 in 2015, #248 now.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 3,095 girls got the name (#79 that year). First in the US records in 1914.

How common

• About 1 in 519 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,347 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 778 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in HI (5.59 per 1,000 girls), SD (4.26 per 1,000 girls), RI (4.08 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Melody is #79 in the US and #248 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Melody were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Melodi53 US · 4 E&W
• Melodee13 US
• Mellody11 US
• Melodii11 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Melody

Girls

• June#150From the word “name”^*
• Hazel#21From the word “hazel”^*
• Opal#423Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #1,110 in 2015, #423 in 2025
• Iris#61“rainbow”^*
• Magnolia#124Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #634 in 2015, #124 in 2025
• Aria#26“a musical aria”^*

For a brother

• Royal#476Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #476 vs #2,014 in 2025
• August#81“month of August”^*
• Prince#447Editor’s note Down from #386 in 2015 to #447 in 2025 in the US
• Duke#695Editor’s note Down from #601 in 2015 to #695 in 2025 in the US
• Briar#686Editor’s note Used for both: 34% of US babies named Briar in 2025 were boys
• Rowan#59“little red one”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under English, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Melody’s. Rank is US 2025.