Girl name#1,975 of girl names
Melonie
Pronounced M EH1 L OW0 N AY1 (ARPABET)
- 3 syllables
- Peaked 1973
- 81 years in use
- 1 spelling
How popular is Melonie?
Melonie is a girls' name, and first appears in 1944. It has been given to 5,575 children — the 1,975th most common girls' name on record.
It is still recorded, but barely: 216 births across the past decade, against a peak of 182 in a single year. That peak was in 1973.
Mellonie is counted with it here, since the two are pronounced identically.
Spelling variants
These spellings sound identical to Melonie and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.
- Mellonie
Characteristics
- 3 syllables
Phonetic detail
- Pronunciations:
- M EH1 L OW0 N AY1 · M EH1 L OW0 N IY1
- Stress pattern:
- 101 · 101
- Syllables:
- 3
Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.
Names like Melonie
Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.
Sibling names for Melonie
Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.
Frequently asked questions
- How popular is the name Melonie?
- Melonie ranks 1,975th among girls' names in US records, with 5,575 births since 1944. Over the past decade it accounts for 216.
- Is Melonie a unisex name?
- No. Melonie is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
- When was Melonie most popular?
- 1973, when 182 children were given the name. It has been in use for 81 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
- How else is Melonie spelled?
- Mellonie. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.