Melody

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Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls

Origin: English

Meaning

Melody is a modern English feminine given name taken from the vocabulary word melody, which is ultimately derived from the Greek ฮผฮตฮปแฟณฮดฮฏฮฑ, melลidรญa, "singing, chanting").

From Wikipedia

Melody first appears in the data in 1979 and has been recorded in 36 different years as a girl's name. Its single biggest year was 2014 with 45 babies (rank #241 that year). It was not in the 2017 data. The name has been declining over the last five years.

Numerology of Melody

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Melody yields these three numbers โ€” a playful read on the name's character.

634
Total babies (all years)
36
Years in the data
45
Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time โ€” Girls

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
19794#1,080
19804#1,102
19814#1,093
19825#995
19833#1,213
19843#1,227
19853#1,262
19863#1,269
19879#815
198812#704
198915#638
199015#661
199114#693
199213#706
19938#924
199414#691
199515#651
199630#434
199719#569
199820#548
199913#701
200011#792
200113#690
200221#526
200329#430
200425#449
200524#444
200617#544
200718#523
200837#304
200927#388
201042#274
201140#273
201230#322
201329#318
201445#241