Melodie
Melodie was given to 94 girls in 2025, #2,032 among girls’ names; 10,502 Americans have been recorded with it since 1933 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,370 Americans named Melodie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 53 years old and half are between 28 and 66.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Melodie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Melodie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Melodie is “a female given name from English, of rather rare usage, variant of Melody.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Melodie?
#2,032 among girls’ names, 2025
Melodie fell from #1,737 in 2015 to #2,032 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 67.8 to 58.5 per million.
409 babies in 1956, the peak
Melodie peaked in 1956, when 409 girls were given it, #450 among girls’ names. The 94 births of 2025 are 23% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 94 | #2,032 | 0.06 |
| 2024 | 111 | #1,818 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 85 | #2,220 | 0.05 |
| 2022 | 74 | #2,459 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 65 | #2,664 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 91 | #2,044 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 105 | #1,908 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 86 | #2,185 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 81 | #2,298 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 98 | #2,029 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (88)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 121 | #1,737 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 96 | #2,044 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 92 | #2,091 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 100 | #1,968 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 92 | #2,096 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 119 | #1,750 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 82 | #2,369 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 70 | #2,655 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 80 | #2,383 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 77 | #2,431 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 58 | #2,847 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 77 | #2,277 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 83 | #2,114 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 62 | #2,537 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 91 | #1,915 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 70 | #2,248 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 47 | #2,883 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 61 | #2,328 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 54 | #2,439 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 51 | #2,493 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 90 | #1,643 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 75 | #1,895 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 75 | #1,889 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 75 | #1,882 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 97 | #1,574 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 79 | #1,818 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 77 | #1,758 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 79 | #1,654 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 83 | #1,540 | 0.05 |
| 1986 | 96 | #1,355 | 0.06 |
| 1985 | 96 | #1,363 | 0.06 |
| 1984 | 102 | #1,258 | 0.06 |
| 1983 | 107 | #1,205 | 0.06 |
| 1982 | 105 | #1,247 | 0.06 |
| 1981 | 122 | #1,132 | 0.07 |
| 1980 | 142 | #1,021 | 0.09 |
| 1979 | 131 | #1,058 | 0.08 |
| 1978 | 144 | #965 | 0.09 |
| 1977 | 146 | #950 | 0.10 |
| 1976 | 122 | #1,023 | 0.08 |
| 1975 | 129 | #968 | 0.09 |
| 1974 | 134 | #933 | 0.09 |
| 1973 | 162 | #814 | 0.11 |
| 1972 | 152 | #853 | 0.10 |
| 1971 | 145 | #907 | 0.09 |
| 1970 | 131 | #967 | 0.07 |
| 1969 | 193 | #726 | 0.11 |
| 1968 | 171 | #761 | 0.10 |
| 1967 | 210 | #665 | 0.13 |
| 1966 | 208 | #674 | 0.12 |
| 1965 | 212 | #675 | 0.12 |
| 1964 | 217 | #705 | 0.11 |
| 1963 | 243 | #648 | 0.13 |
| 1962 | 232 | #673 | 0.12 |
| 1961 | 228 | #692 | 0.11 |
| 1960 | 312 | #554 | 0.15 |
| 1959 | 302 | #563 | 0.15 |
| 1958 | 307 | #558 | 0.15 |
| 1957 | 343 | #513 | 0.17 |
| 1956 | 409 | #450 | 0.20 |
| 1955 | 299 | #532 | 0.15 |
| 1954 | 191 | #673 | 0.10 |
| 1953 | 128 | #817 | 0.07 |
| 1952 | 148 | #730 | 0.08 |
| 1951 | 129 | #784 | 0.07 |
| 1950 | 96 | #910 | 0.06 |
| 1949 | 98 | #893 | 0.06 |
| 1948 | 69 | #1,064 | 0.04 |
| 1947 | 111 | #833 | 0.06 |
| 1946 | 74 | #975 | 0.05 |
| 1945 | 46 | #1,168 | 0.04 |
| 1944 | 41 | #1,245 | 0.03 |
| 1943 | 40 | #1,299 | 0.03 |
| 1942 | 48 | #1,149 | 0.04 |
| 1941 | 13 | #2,495 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,770 | under 0.01 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,757 | under 0.01 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,650 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Melodie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Melodie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 88 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Melodie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Melodie, and how old are they?
9,370 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 89% of the 10,502 Americans ever recorded as Melodie. The median Melodie alive today is 53 years old; half are between 28 and 66.
The 2020 Census counted 8,549 people named Melodie (8,537 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,211 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 | 103 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 3,160 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,340 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,370 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,210 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,190 |
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 Melodie born?
The states with the most babies named Melodie are California, Texas and New York, with 42% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,366 | #1,715 | 1.2× |
| Texas | 751 | #2,154 | 1.0× |
| New York | 540 | #1,614 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 472 | #1,628 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 406 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 336 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 285 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 258 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 205 | #1,606 | 0.7× |
| Indiana | 198 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Melodie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Melodie 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 Melodie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 131,368 babies since 1880, Melodie is the second most given (8.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 94 of their 3,255 babies (2.9%), again the second most given.
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 Melodie
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 Melodie and names like it
- Compare Melodie and MelodyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sMelodie peaked in 1956.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Melodie since 1910.
- The top names of 1956The year the most babies were named Melodie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Melodie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.