Melody Girl
How popular is Melody?
#79 girl name in 2025
3,095 baby girls were named Melody in the US in 2025, making it the 79th most popular girl name.
Melody popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #79 for girls (▲ 12 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 3,095 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising (+42% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #148 in 2015, #106 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2025 (3,095 girls) |
| Highest rank | #79 in 2025 |
| First recorded | 1914 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 2% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Melody counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Melody family of names ranked #99 for girls in 2025 (#114 the year before), with 3,266 babies in all.
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Melody is most popular
Babies named Melody per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Rhode Island: 4.7 per 1,000 (59 girls)
- Delaware: 3.6 per 1,000 (41 girls)
- New Mexico: 3.5 per 1,000 (85 girls)
- Nevada: 3.3 per 1,000 (151 girls)
- Hawaii: 3.1 per 1,000 (36 girls)
Melody by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 7 | #2,875 |
| 1920s | 42 | #2,920 |
| 1930s | 169 | #1,382 |
| 1940s | 3,757 | #279 |
| 1950s | 15,526 | #155 |
| 1960s | 18,469 | #153 |
| 1970s | 12,302 | #195 |
| 1980s | 10,375 | #199 |
| 1990s | 7,527 | #308 |
| 2000s | 10,848 | #226 |
| 2010s | 19,879 | #118 |
| 2020s | 16,013 | #79 |
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Questions
- Is Melody a boy or girl name?
- Melody is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Melody were girls.
- How popular is the name Melody?
- 3,095 baby girls were named Melody in the US in 2025, making it the 79th most popular girl name.
- When was Melody most popular?
- Melody peaked in 2025, when 3,095 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #79 in 2025.
- How many people are named Melody?
- 115,084 babies have been named Melody in the US since 1880. We estimate about 107,489 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 36.
- Where is Melody most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Melody was most common in Rhode Island, at 4.7 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.