Melodee
Melodee was given to 13 girls in 2025, #8,180 among girls’ names; 2,722 Americans have been recorded with it since 1933 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,350 Americans named Melodee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 23 and 69.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Melodee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Melodee?
#8,180 among girls’ names, 2025
Melodee fell from #5,958 in 2015 to #8,180 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 12.3 to 8.1 per million.
104 babies in 1956, the peak
Melodee peaked in 1956, when 104 girls were given it, #1,002 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 13% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,180 | 8.1 |
| 2024 | 28 | #4,850 | 17.3 |
| 2023 | 29 | #4,710 | 18.1 |
| 2022 | 29 | #4,746 | 17.7 |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,351 | 14.6 |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,121 | 15.5 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,609 | 10.7 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,933 | 12.3 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,284 | 14.5 |
| 2016 | 36 | #4,136 | 20.3 |
Every recorded year (89)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #5,958 | 12.3 |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,259 | 14.6 |
| 2013 | 36 | #4,132 | 20.5 |
| 2012 | 36 | #4,184 | 20.4 |
| 2011 | 28 | #5,008 | 15.9 |
| 2010 | 45 | #3,554 | 25.3 |
| 2009 | 31 | #4,770 | 16.9 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,289 | 9.5 |
| 2007 | 23 | #6,024 | 12.0 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,280 | 11.0 |
| 2005 | 29 | #4,663 | 15.7 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,672 | 9.8 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,226 | 10.4 |
| 2002 | 19 | #6,047 | 10.6 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,224 | 10.0 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,955 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,208 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 30 | #3,889 | 17.0 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,646 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,200 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,513 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,560 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,147 | 8.3 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,256 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,766 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 15 | #6,024 | 7.9 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,320 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,916 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,997 | 9.2 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,650 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,560 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,939 | 11.9 |
| 1983 | 14 | #5,048 | 8.4 |
| 1982 | 33 | #2,809 | 19.5 |
| 1981 | 27 | #3,206 | 16.2 |
| 1980 | 22 | #3,682 | 13.3 |
| 1979 | 23 | #3,502 | 14.3 |
| 1978 | 24 | #3,249 | 15.7 |
| 1977 | 34 | #2,538 | 22.2 |
| 1976 | 29 | #2,703 | 19.8 |
| 1975 | 27 | #2,785 | 18.5 |
| 1974 | 26 | #2,808 | 17.7 |
| 1973 | 28 | #2,605 | 19.2 |
| 1972 | 23 | #2,953 | 15.1 |
| 1971 | 25 | #2,846 | 15.0 |
| 1970 | 38 | #2,144 | 21.7 |
| 1969 | 33 | #2,239 | 19.6 |
| 1968 | 40 | #1,898 | 24.4 |
| 1967 | 33 | #2,059 | 20.0 |
| 1966 | 37 | #1,900 | 21.9 |
| 1965 | 35 | #1,974 | 19.8 |
| 1964 | 50 | #1,623 | 26.4 |
| 1963 | 45 | #1,729 | 23.3 |
| 1962 | 61 | #1,424 | 31.0 |
| 1961 | 69 | #1,347 | 34.2 |
| 1960 | 72 | #1,297 | 35.6 |
| 1959 | 72 | #1,268 | 35.6 |
| 1958 | 84 | #1,160 | 41.8 |
| 1957 | 78 | #1,199 | 38.1 |
| 1956 | 104 | #1,002 | 51.8 |
| 1955 | 102 | #990 | 52.2 |
| 1954 | 73 | #1,174 | 37.6 |
| 1953 | 76 | #1,118 | 40.4 |
| 1952 | 56 | #1,274 | 30.2 |
| 1951 | 46 | #1,389 | 25.5 |
| 1950 | 49 | #1,311 | 28.6 |
| 1949 | 37 | #1,532 | 21.6 |
| 1948 | 44 | #1,397 | 25.9 |
| 1947 | 51 | #1,281 | 28.8 |
| 1946 | 38 | #1,431 | 24.2 |
| 1945 | 25 | #1,687 | 19.1 |
| 1944 | 26 | #1,647 | 19.6 |
| 1943 | 23 | #1,817 | 16.5 |
| 1942 | 17 | #2,173 | 12.6 |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,106 | 5.5 |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,113 | 5.6 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,642 | 4.8 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,673 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,649 | 5.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Melodee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Melodee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 89 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Melodee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Melodee, and how old are they?
2,350 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 86% of the 2,722 Americans ever recorded as Melodee. The median Melodee alive today is 56 years old; half are between 23 and 69.
The 2020 Census counted 2,167 people named Melodee (2,162 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,323 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 57 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 948 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 441 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 221 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 356 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 330 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Melodee born?
The states with the most babies named Melodee are California, Illinois and Texas, with 74% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 338 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 110 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 64 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Minnesota | 34 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Iowa | 26 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 22 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 19 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 19 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Oregon | 15 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Washington | 12 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Melodee is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Melodee is most over-represented in California: since 1933 it was given 1.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Melodee with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Melodee?
Melodee is a less common spelling of Melody: SSA has recorded 2,722 Melodee and 115,084 Melody since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 131,368 babies since 1880, Melodee is the third most given (2.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 3,255 babies (<1%), the fourth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Melodee
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1930-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Melodie | 10,502 |
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Melodee and names like it
- Compare Melodee and MelodyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sMelodee peaked in 1956.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Melodee since 1910.
- The top names of 1956The year the most babies were named Melodee.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Melodee alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.