Meaning not yet researched.
Melodee: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 13 in 2025. Its best rank was #991 in 1955.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #991 in 1955; #8,182 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Melodee in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,182 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1955, at #991.
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Melodee: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 13 girls in 2025. Peak: #991 in 1955 · most girls in one year: 104 (1956).
In 2025, 13 US girls were named Melodee, making it the 8,182nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 3,329 places from #4,853 in 2024. That is 15 fewer than the 28 girls named Melodee in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #991, reached in 1955. The most girls given the name in a single year was 104, in 1956. For comparison, it was #5,960 in 2015 and #1,312 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Melodee in 89 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1933 with 5 babies. In all, 2,722 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 740 babies named Melodee.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 248 US girls were named Melodee; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 36. In 2025 that was about 1 in 123,636 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Melody (115,084 babies since 1880), Melodie (10,502 babies since 1880) and Melodi (2,072 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Melodee in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,182 | — | — |
| 2024 | 28 | #4,853 | — | — |
| 2023 | 29 | #4,713 | — | — |
| 2022 | 29 | #4,749 | — | — |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,355 | — | — |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,124 | — | — |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,613 | — | — |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,937 | — | — |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,286 | — | — |
| 2016 | 36 | #4,137 | — | — |
| 2015 | 22 | #5,960 | — | — |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,261 | — | — |
| 2013 | 36 | #4,134 | — | — |
| 2012 | 36 | #4,186 | — | — |
| 2011 | 28 | #5,010 | — | — |
| 2010 | 45 | #3,555 | — | — |
| 2009 | 31 | #4,771 | — | — |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,293 | — | — |
| 2007 | 23 | #6,028 | — | — |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,282 | — | — |
| 2005 | 29 | #4,667 | — | — |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,677 | — | — |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,231 | — | — |
| 2002 | 19 | #6,052 | — | — |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,229 | — | — |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,963 | — | — |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,215 | — | — |
| 1998 | 30 | #3,892 | — | — |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,651 | — | — |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,205 | — | — |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,518 | — | — |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,566 | — | — |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,153 | — | — |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,263 | — | — |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,773 | — | — |
| 1990 | 15 | #6,030 | — | — |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,326 | — | — |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,921 | — | — |
| 1987 | 16 | #5,002 | — | — |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,653 | — | — |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,562 | — | — |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,940 | — | — |
| 1983 | 14 | #5,049 | — | — |
| 1982 | 33 | #2,809 | — | — |
| 1981 | 27 | #3,206 | — | — |
| 1980 | 22 | #3,683 | — | — |
| 1979 | 23 | #3,502 | — | — |
| 1978 | 24 | #3,249 | — | — |
| 1977 | 34 | #2,538 | — | — |
| 1976 | 29 | #2,704 | — | — |
| 1975 | 27 | #2,785 | — | — |
| 1974 | 26 | #2,808 | — | — |
| 1973 | 28 | #2,605 | — | — |
| 1972 | 23 | #2,953 | — | — |
| 1971 | 25 | #2,846 | — | — |
| 1970 | 38 | #2,144 | — | — |
| 1969 | 33 | #2,239 | — | — |
| 1968 | 40 | #1,898 | — | — |
| 1967 | 33 | #2,059 | — | — |
| 1966 | 37 | #1,900 | — | — |
| 1965 | 35 | #1,974 | — | — |
| 1964 | 50 | #1,623 | — | — |
| 1963 | 45 | #1,730 | — | — |
| 1962 | 61 | #1,424 | — | — |
| 1961 | 69 | #1,348 | — | — |
| 1960 | 72 | #1,298 | — | — |
| 1959 | 72 | #1,269 | — | — |
| 1958 | 84 | #1,161 | — | — |
| 1957 | 78 | #1,200 | — | — |
| 1956 | 104 | #1,003 | — | — |
| 1955 | 102 | #991 | — | — |
| 1954 | 73 | #1,175 | — | — |
| 1953 | 76 | #1,119 | — | — |
| 1952 | 56 | #1,275 | — | — |
| 1951 | 46 | #1,390 | — | — |
| 1950 | 49 | #1,312 | — | — |
| 1949 | 37 | #1,533 | — | — |
| 1948 | 44 | #1,398 | — | — |
| 1947 | 51 | #1,282 | — | — |
| 1946 | 38 | #1,432 | — | — |
| 1945 | 25 | #1,688 | — | — |
| 1944 | 26 | #1,648 | — | — |
| 1943 | 23 | #1,818 | — | — |
| 1942 | 17 | #2,174 | — | — |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,108 | — | — |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,115 | — | — |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,644 | — | — |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,675 | — | — |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,651 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).