Melodi
Melodi was given to 53 girls in 2025, #3,092 among girls’ names; 2,072 Americans have been recorded with it since 1946 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,950 Americans named Melodi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 9 and 54.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Melodi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Melodi?
#3,092 among girls’ names, 2025
Melodi rose from #3,824 in 2015 to #3,092 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 22.4 to 33.0 per million.
66 babies in 2021, the peak
Melodi peaked in 2021, when 66 girls were given it, #2,629 among girls’ names. The 53 births of 2025 are 80% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 53 | #3,092 | 33.0 |
| 2024 | 54 | #3,036 | 33.3 |
| 2023 | 57 | #2,962 | 35.5 |
| 2022 | 56 | #2,986 | 34.1 |
| 2021 | 66 | #2,629 | 40.2 |
| 2020 | 60 | #2,768 | 37.1 |
| 2019 | 57 | #2,917 | 34.0 |
| 2018 | 47 | #3,378 | 27.6 |
| 2017 | 43 | #3,603 | 24.9 |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,803 | 16.4 |
Every recorded year (80)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 40 | #3,824 | 22.4 |
| 2014 | 43 | #3,634 | 24.1 |
| 2013 | 38 | #3,975 | 21.7 |
| 2012 | 38 | #4,033 | 21.6 |
| 2011 | 31 | #4,644 | 17.6 |
| 2010 | 40 | #3,866 | 22.5 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,244 | 9.8 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,984 | 10.0 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,248 | 11.4 |
| 2006 | 24 | #5,655 | 12.6 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,681 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,896 | 11.4 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,725 | 11.5 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,995 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,225 | 10.0 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,386 | 9.4 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,545 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,267 | 9.1 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,140 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,259 | 8.6 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,857 | 9.1 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,606 | 9.5 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,842 | 8.8 |
| 1992 | 21 | #4,794 | 11.4 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,843 | 6.9 |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,624 | 11.1 |
| 1989 | 14 | #6,025 | 7.6 |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,774 | 10.1 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,491 | 8.1 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,882 | 9.3 |
| 1985 | 15 | #5,003 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 26 | #3,291 | 15.4 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,408 | 10.2 |
| 1982 | 30 | #2,994 | 17.7 |
| 1981 | 21 | #3,812 | 12.6 |
| 1980 | 25 | #3,382 | 15.1 |
| 1979 | 28 | #3,045 | 17.4 |
| 1978 | 34 | #2,547 | 22.2 |
| 1977 | 33 | #2,594 | 21.5 |
| 1976 | 20 | #3,482 | 13.7 |
| 1975 | 20 | #3,471 | 13.7 |
| 1974 | 26 | #2,809 | 17.7 |
| 1973 | 23 | #2,976 | 15.8 |
| 1972 | 24 | #2,871 | 15.8 |
| 1971 | 19 | #3,455 | 11.4 |
| 1970 | 25 | #2,831 | 14.3 |
| 1969 | 29 | #2,435 | 17.2 |
| 1968 | 32 | #2,149 | 19.5 |
| 1967 | 26 | #2,408 | 15.7 |
| 1966 | 34 | #2,005 | 20.1 |
| 1965 | 23 | #2,583 | 13.0 |
| 1964 | 24 | #2,576 | 12.7 |
| 1963 | 26 | #2,400 | 13.5 |
| 1962 | 37 | #1,907 | 18.8 |
| 1961 | 27 | #2,339 | 13.4 |
| 1960 | 34 | #1,967 | 16.8 |
| 1959 | 36 | #1,869 | 17.8 |
| 1958 | 32 | #1,970 | 15.9 |
| 1957 | 24 | #2,326 | 11.7 |
| 1956 | 34 | #1,856 | 16.9 |
| 1955 | 19 | #2,606 | 9.7 |
| 1954 | 22 | #2,344 | 11.3 |
| 1953 | 16 | #2,776 | 8.5 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,710 | 5.4 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,899 | 5.0 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,840 | 2.9 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,538 | 5.8 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,759 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,625 | 3.9 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,578 | 5.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Melodi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Melodi has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 80 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Melodi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Melodi, and how old are they?
1,950 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 2,072 Americans ever recorded as Melodi. The median Melodi alive today is 30 years old; half are between 9 and 54.
The 2020 Census counted 1,510 people named Melodi (1,509 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,657 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 312 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 390 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 282 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 329 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 639 |
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 Melodi born?
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 Melodi 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 Melodi?
Melodi is a less common spelling of Melody: SSA has recorded 2,072 Melodi and 115,084 Melody since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 133,861 babies since 1880, Melodi is the fourth most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 53 of their 3,266 babies (1.6%), the third 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 Melodi
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
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 Melodi and names like it
- Compare Melodi and MelodyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMelodi peaked in 2021.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Melodi since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Melodi.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Melodi alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.