How popular is the name Melodie?

Melodie ranks 1,201st among girls' names in US records, with 13,248 births since 1933. Over the past decade it accounts for 1,425.

Is Melodie a unisex name?

No. Melodie is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1956, when 519 children were given the name. It has been in use for 92 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Melodi, Melodye, Mellodie. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.

Girl name#1,201 of girl names

Pronounced M EH1 L OW0 D AY1 (ARPABET)

Melodie is a girls' name, and first appears in 1933. It has been given to 13,248 children — the 1,201st most common girls' name on record.

Its use has been broadly flat across the past two decades. Its best single year was 1956, when 519 children were given it.

Three other spellings are counted in that total — Melodi, Melodye and Mellodie — because they are pronounced identically.

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These spellings sound identical to Melodie and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Melodie?: Melodie ranks 1,201st among girls' names in US records, with 13,248 births since 1933. Over the past decade it accounts for 1,425.
Is Melodie a unisex name?: No. Melodie is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Melodie most popular?: 1956, when 519 children were given the name. It has been in use for 92 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
How else is Melodie spelled?: Melodi, Melodye, Mellodie. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.