Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls
Origin: EnglishMelody is a modern English feminine given name taken from the vocabulary word melody, which is ultimately derived from the Greek μελῳδία, melōidía, "singing, chanting").
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In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Melody yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Melody set records in 2024 on both measures at once, with 2,771 births and rank 91. That is worth noting because most names peak on count and rank in different years, sometimes decades apart. Growth of 34% across the decade, from a first appearance in 1914 and 111,958 births in total. The bearer list contains a nice illustration of how loosely these matches work: Lily-Rose Depp, born 1999, appears because Melody is among her given names, while Melody Thornton and the singer Melody Gardot actually go by it. Word-names drawn from music have never moved as a coherent group the way gemstone or season names have, so Melody's rise is harder to attribute to a category trend than Autumn's or Jade's.
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Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1914 | 7 | #3,077 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,501 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,530 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,307 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,780 |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,452 |
| 1929 | 10 | #3,071 |
| 1930 | 17 | #2,084 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,913 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,776 |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,364 |
| 1934 | 16 | #2,061 |
| 1935 | 15 | #2,179 |
| 1936 | 18 | #1,852 |
| 1937 | 18 | #1,894 |
| 1938 | 29 | #1,403 |
| 1939 | 22 | #1,667 |
| 1940 | 26 | #1,540 |
| 1941 | 51 | #1,027 |
| 1942 | 202 | #523 |
| 1943 | 195 | #538 |
| 1944 | 200 | #512 |
| 1945 | 307 | #405 |
| 1946 | 538 | #322 |
| 1947 | 759 | #279 |
| 1948 | 739 | #281 |
| 1949 | 740 | #282 |
| 1950 | 791 | #273 |
| 1951 | 887 | #260 |
| 1952 | 1,131 | #232 |
| 1953 | 1,296 | #222 |
| 1954 | 1,546 | #199 |
| 1955 | 1,801 | #186 |
| 1956 | 2,389 | #155 |
| 1957 | 1,990 | #182 |
| 1958 | 1,742 | #194 |
| 1959 | 1,952 | #185 |
| 1960 | 2,756 | #153 |
| 1961 | 2,272 | #172 |
| 1962 | 2,024 | #185 |
| 1963 | 2,093 | #182 |
| 1964 | 1,897 | #192 |
| 1965 | 1,664 | #199 |
| 1966 | 1,707 | #192 |
| 1967 | 1,529 | #204 |
| 1968 | 1,282 | #230 |
| 1969 | 1,245 | #239 |
| 1970 | 1,176 | #262 |
| 1971 | 1,203 | #244 |
| 1972 | 1,122 | #242 |
| 1973 | 1,124 | #224 |
| 1974 | 1,198 | #211 |
| 1975 | 1,198 | #206 |
| 1976 | 1,215 | #199 |
| 1977 | 1,371 | #196 |
| 1978 | 1,330 | #195 |
| 1979 | 1,365 | #197 |
| 1980 | 1,317 | #199 |
| 1981 | 1,175 | #223 |
| 1982 | 1,115 | #229 |
| 1983 | 1,107 | #225 |
| 1984 | 1,088 | #234 |
| 1985 | 967 | #259 |
| 1986 | 935 | #269 |
| 1987 | 906 | #270 |
| 1988 | 884 | #283 |
| 1989 | 881 | #296 |
| 1990 | 867 | #315 |
| 1991 | 850 | #319 |
| 1992 | 906 | #308 |
| 1993 | 731 | #353 |
| 1994 | 730 | #358 |
| 1995 | 708 | #369 |
| 1996 | 664 | #399 |
| 1997 | 736 | #370 |
| 1998 | 708 | #390 |
| 1999 | 627 | #436 |
| 2000 | 720 | #398 |
| 2001 | 1,080 | #290 |
| 2002 | 1,045 | #297 |
| 2003 | 1,023 | #303 |
| 2004 | 1,018 | #312 |
| 2005 | 1,040 | #311 |
| 2006 | 1,107 | #299 |
| 2007 | 1,143 | #296 |
| 2008 | 1,220 | #280 |
| 2009 | 1,451 | #226 |
| 2010 | 1,575 | #198 |
| 2011 | 1,561 | #201 |
| 2012 | 1,790 | #172 |
| 2013 | 1,866 | #172 |
| 2014 | 2,065 | #158 |
| 2015 | 2,178 | #148 |
| 2016 | 2,147 | #144 |
| 2017 | 2,071 | #144 |
| 2018 | 2,154 | #136 |
| 2019 | 2,461 | #118 |
| 2020 | 2,522 | #106 |
| 2021 | 2,466 | #113 |
| 2022 | 2,572 | #109 |
| 2023 | 2,569 | #102 |
| 2024 | 2,771 | #91 |
