# Melody (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/melody/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Melodie |
| US babies named this | 115,084 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 170 / 114,914 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 3,835, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From the noun melody; in regular use since the 20th century.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1,562 | 201 |
| 2012 | 1,791 | 172 |
| 2013 | 1,867 | 172 |
| 2014 | 2,065 | 158 |
| 2015 | 2,178 | 148 |
| 2016 | 2,148 | 144 |
| 2017 | 2,072 | 144 |
| 2018 | 2,155 | 136 |
| 2019 | 2,466 | 118 |
| 2020 | 2,524 | 106 |
| 2021 | 2,466 | 113 |
| 2022 | 2,573 | 109 |
| 2023 | 2,572 | 103 |
| 2024 | 2,783 | 91 |
| 2025 | 3,095 | 79 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 5 | 5,492 |
| 1973 | 7 | 4,350 |
| 1974 | 7 | 4,464 |
| 1976 | 8 | 4,270 |
| 1978 | 5 | 6,445 |
| 1979 | 5 | 6,713 |
| 1980 | 5 | 6,915 |
| 1981 | 9 | 4,385 |
| 1982 | 5 | 7,012 |
| 1983 | 8 | 4,771 |
| 1984 | 8 | 4,833 |
| 1986 | 8 | 5,165 |
| 1987 | 6 | 6,665 |
| 1989 | 9 | 5,447 |
| 2018 | 6 | 11,674 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 179 | 275 |
| 2012 | 170 | 285 |
| 2013 | 183 | 261 |
| 2014 | 163 | 293 |
| 2015 | 185 | 269 |
| 2016 | 180 | 276 |
| 2017 | 158 | 308 |
| 2018 | 152 | 312 |
| 2019 | 164 | 295 |
| 2020 | 161 | 290 |
| 2021 | 158 | 297 |
| 2022 | 181 | 258 |
| 2023 | 192 | 236 |
| 2024 | 155 | 289 |
| 2025 | 188 | 248 |

## In other languages

- French: Mélodie
- Russian: Мелоди

## People named Melody

- Melody Gardot, American jazz singer
- Melody Thornton, American singer
- Melody Anderson, Canadian-American actress
- Melody Thomas Scott, actress
- Melody Klaver, Dutch actress
- Melody Perkins, American actress, model and dancer
- Melody Beattie, American writer (1948–2025)
- Melody Kay, American actress
- Lily-Rose Depp, French-American actress (born 1999)
- Mimi Miyagi, American pornographic actress

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.