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 1996 and has been recorded in 21 different years as a girl's name. Its single biggest year was 2015 with 185 babies (rank #269 that year). It was not in the 2024 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.

2,326
Total babies (all years)
21
Years in the data
185
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
199640#617
199745#577
199830#777
199951#554
200051#544
200150#562
200257#530
200397#379
200479#449
200577#480
2006121#356
2007121#360
2008133#339
2009151#306
2010163#294
2011179#276
2012170#286
2013183#262
2014163#293
2015185#269
2016180#277