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Melodie

#2,032 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Melody

Melodie has been given to 10,502 babies in the U.S. since 1933. In 2025 it ranked #2,032 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1956, with 409 recorded.

Babies named Melodie, 2025

1 in 35,300

Melodie over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Melodie: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Melody

English

What Melodie means

Melodie is a variant of Melody.

Origin, language, and formation

Melodie is used in English. Its origins include English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Melody.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10,502 girls were recorded with the name Melodie between 1933 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 409 in 1956; its best national rank was #450 in 1956.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,044 in 2020 to #2,032 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,737 in 2015 to #2,032 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Melodie?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 35,300
94 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 17,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,032
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
24,447 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Melodie sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 24,447 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Melodie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Melodies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Melodie was born before 1970 — so the typical Melodie is around 55 today.

Median birth year
1970
About 55 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
22.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
20.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
9,947
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1950s — 22.4% of all recorded uses (2,352).

Is Melodie rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−214
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+12
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−295
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.78×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
23.0%
Peak was 1956 (409)
Years since peak
69
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#450
1956

Spellings of Melodie

Melodie is not the most common spelling — Melanie is, with 63.4% against Melodie's 2.5%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Melodie is used

Across 2016–2025, Melodie was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 23,607 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in 50,000).

27 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 14,286
  2. 2New York1 in 16,667
  3. 3Texas1 in 16,667
  4. 4California1 in 20,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in 25,000
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in 25,000
  7. 7Alabama1 in 33,333
  8. 8Louisiana1 in 33,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Melodie around the world

Where Melodie ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #2,278
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2010–2010
    #802
    in 2010
  • France
    1903–2025
    #531
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #361
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1944–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Melodie in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Melodie. Linked forms have their own page here.

ElodieMelodiMelodyMelodía

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Melodie by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,032
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 12
Best rank ever
#450
1956
Peak year
1956
409 that year
First recorded
1933
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
10,502
Count in 2025
94

Names similar to Melodie

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

MelonieMelaniaMelanyFreddieMelaniMelisaMelodeeMelinaMelonyMelvinaMellisaMaudieMelainaMeliaMelroseMellieBirdieMelannyMelodiElodieMaddieMelannieMelindaMelynda

Names with a curve like Melodie

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Melodie, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

MariMartaValorieDeniceCarenLizabethColletteRoxannRoniJoanieRosalindaMaribeth

Sibling names for Melodie

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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