Melodie

Where Melodie comes from

The dictionaries list Melodie as a given name — a female given name from English, of rather rare usage, variant of Melody — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • English
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1933
    First appearance
    #4,218 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1956
    Peak, #451
    409 babies named Melodie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1968
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #760.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from English, of rather rare usage, variant of Melody.
Namesakes
  • Melodie Sexton · American R&B singer

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.