Melody
For 2025 the count puts Melody at #79 nationwide, with the curve still pointing up. First recorded 1914, best year 2025, 114,914 bearers across the whole run.
Melody’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Melody, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Melody since 1914
Melody is at its all-time peak right now: #79 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Melody is most common
The state that gives Melody most often, per girls born there, is Hawaii (0.56% in 2025); South Dakota and Rhode Island are close behind.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Melody
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Magnolia
#124 in 2025
Maverick
#49 in 2025
Malakai
#213 in 2025
Muhammad
#239 in 2025
Liliana
#78 in 2025
Everett
#77 in 2025
Maeve
#76 in 2025
Emery
#74 in 2025 · Teutonic
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About Melody
How common is Melody today?
For 2025 the count puts Melody at #79 nationwide, with the curve still pointing up. Every point on the chart is the SSA's own count, back to 1914.
What does Melody mean?
The public-domain references we cite do not record a meaning for Melody, so this page does not invent one.
Is there a sibling name for Melody?
On origin, era, syllables and first letter, Magnolia sits closest, with Maverick and Malakai just behind. Give the matcher the names already in the house and it scores the whole top thousand against them.
Get Melody’s free Name Kit
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