Melodye
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Melodye has been given to 816 babies in the U.S. since 1943. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1954, with 90 recorded.
Babies named Melodye, 1984
1 in 436,000
Melodye over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Melodye?
Melodye had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1984, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1984
- 1 in 436,000
- 8 of 3,488,451 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 210,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1984
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 302,252 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Melodye sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1984 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 302,252 children born in 1984 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Melodye. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Melodyes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Melodye was born before 1956 — so the typical Melodye is around 69 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 47.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 35.4%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 674
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 47.2% of all recorded uses (385).
Is Melodye 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1954 (90)
- Years since peak
- 71
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 65.5% average annual change
Spellings of Melodye
Melodye is not the most common spelling — Melody is, with 77.6% against Melodye's 0.55%.
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 Melodye is used
Across 1910–2025, Melodye was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 608,103 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
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. Melodye has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Melodye around the world
Where Melodye 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.
- France1988–2001#3,149in 2001
- South Australia1947–1975#675in 1975
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Melodye by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Melodye
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Melodye
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.