Melodie
#2,017 for girls in 2025, 94 births
- Peak · girls
- 1956 · 409 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 10,502since 1933
Melodie over time
Rank among girls' names. Melodie has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,017 | 94 |
| 2024 | #1,810 | 111 |
| 2023 | #2,210 | 85 |
| 2022 | #2,445 | 74 |
| 2021 | #2,638 | 65 |
| 2020 | #2,034 | 91 |
| 2019 | #1,898 | 105 |
| 2018 | #2,179 | 86 |
| 2017 | #2,283 | 81 |
| 2016 | #2,017 | 98 |
| 2015 | #1,731 | 121 |
| 2014 | #2,038 | 96 |
| 2013 | #2,083 | 92 |
| 2012 | #1,955 | 100 |
| 2011 | #2,088 | 92 |
| 2010 | #1,747 | 119 |
| 2009 | #2,359 | 82 |
| 2008 | #2,630 | 70 |
| 2007 | #2,368 | 80 |
| 2006 | #2,419 | 77 |
| 2005 | #2,827 | 58 |
| 2004 | #2,264 | 77 |
| 2003 | #2,106 | 83 |
| 2002 | #2,527 | 62 |
| 2001 | #1,901 | 91 |
| 2000 | #2,236 | 70 |
| 1999 | #2,854 | 47 |
| 1998 | #2,307 | 61 |
| 1997 | #2,423 | 54 |
| 1996 | #2,476 | 51 |
| 1995 | #1,640 | 90 |
| 1994 | #1,890 | 75 |
| 1993 | #1,882 | 75 |
| 1992 | #1,876 | 75 |
| 1991 | #1,575 | 97 |
| 1990 | #1,813 | 79 |
| 1989 | #1,750 | 77 |
| 1988 | #1,636 | 79 |
| 1987 | #1,531 | 83 |
| 1986 | #1,351 | 96 |
| 1985 | #1,361 | 96 |
| 1984 | #1,255 | 102 |
| 1983 | #1,200 | 107 |
| 1982 | #1,243 | 105 |
| 1981 | #1,128 | 122 |
| 1980 | #1,019 | 142 |
| 1979 | #1,056 | 131 |
| 1978 | #964 | 144 |
| 1977 | #947 | 146 |
| 1976 | #1,022 | 122 |
| 1975 | #963 | 129 |
| 1974 | #929 | 134 |
| 1973 | #808 | 162 |
| 1972 | #853 | 152 |
| 1971 | #906 | 145 |
| 1970 | #966 | 131 |
| 1969 | #723 | 193 |
| 1968 | #760 | 171 |
| 1967 | #661 | 210 |
| 1966 | #673 | 208 |
| 1965 | #675 | 212 |
| 1964 | #703 | 217 |
| 1963 | #647 | 243 |
| 1962 | #670 | 232 |
| 1961 | #691 | 228 |
| 1960 | #553 | 312 |
| 1959 | #562 | 302 |
| 1958 | #557 | 307 |
| 1957 | #513 | 343 |
| 1956 | #451 | 409 |
| 1955 | #533 | 299 |
| 1954 | #673 | 191 |
| 1953 | #816 | 128 |
| 1952 | #729 | 148 |
| 1951 | #779 | 129 |
| 1950 | #909 | 96 |
| 1949 | #889 | 98 |
| 1948 | #1,057 | 69 |
| 1947 | #833 | 111 |
| 1946 | #970 | 74 |
| 1945 | #1,155 | 46 |
| 1944 | #1,236 | 41 |
| 1943 | #1,291 | 40 |
| 1942 | #1,137 | 48 |
| 1941 | #2,397 | 13 |
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| 1938 | #4,342 | 5 |
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| 1934 | #4,286 | 5 |
| 1933 | #4,218 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Melodie! It came in at #4,218, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1933–1940, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Melodie is popular in 1976
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Tennessee#506 · 1 in 4,362
- Virginia#521 · 1 in 4,482
- North Carolina#657 · 1 in 6,398
- Ohio#795 · 1 in 9,623
- Illinois#860 · 1 in 8,740
Best ever in a state: #205 in North Dakota, 1956.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Tennessee | #506 | 6 | 1 in 4,362 |
| Virginia | #521 | 6 | 1 in 4,482 |
| North Carolina | #657 | 5 | 1 in 6,398 |
| Ohio | #795 | 7 | 1 in 9,623 |
| Illinois | #860 | 8 | 1 in 8,740 |
| Texas | #914 | 11 | 1 in 8,791 |
| New York | #1,003 | 10 | 1 in 10,030 |
| California | #1,209 | 11 | 1 in 13,079 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Melodie
- 207 spots since 2024 (#1,810 → #2,017)
- 17 spots since 2020 (#2,034 → #2,017)
- 286 spots since 2015 (#1,731 → #2,017)
- Biggest jump: 185 spots in 1946 (#1,155 → #970)
- Biggest drop: 243 spots in 1970 (#723 → #966)
- Debuted 1933
- Peaked 1956 at #451 (409 births)
- Births halved by 1968, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 31 yrs · run 1949–1975
- Highest: 1 in 4,909 girls born in 1956 were named Melodie (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 17,099 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 22.4% of all girls named Melodie (2,352) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1930s | 15 | #4,218 (1933) | #4,282 |
| 1940s | 540 | #833 (1947) | #1,218 |
| 1950s | 2,352 | #451 (1956) | #652 |
| 1960s | 2,226 | #553 (1960) | #676 |
| 1970s | 1,396 | #808 (1973) | #941 |
| 1980s | 1,009 | #1,019 (1980) | #1,347 |
| 1990s | 704 | #1,575 (1991) | #2,074 |
| 2000s | 750 | #1,901 (2001) | #2,364 |
| 2010s | 990 | #1,731 (2015) | #2,002 |
| 2020s | 520 | #1,810 (2024) | #2,192 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Melodie in 1976
Top girls' names in 1976
More about 1976
girls
1,465,099 girls got a published name in 1976; 1 in 12,009 of them was named Melodie, which outranked 90.6% of the 10,913 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).