Meaning not yet researched.
Melodie: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 94 in 2025. Its best rank was #451 in 1956.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #451 in 1956; #2,032 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Melodie in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,032 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1956, at #451.
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Melodie: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 94 girls in 2025. Peak: #451 in 1956 · most girls in one year: 409 (1956).
In 2025, 94 US girls were named Melodie, making it the 2,032nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 214 places from #1,818 in 2024. That is 17 fewer than the 111 girls named Melodie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #451, reached in 1956. That year also had the most girls given the name: 409. For comparison, it was #1,737 in 2015 and #911 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Melodie in 88 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1933 with 5 babies. In all, 10,502 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 2,352 babies named Melodie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 890 US girls were named Melodie; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 111. In 2025 that was about 1 in 17,099 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Melodie ranked highest in North Carolina in 2025, at #1,606 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Melody (115,084 babies since 1880), Elodie (6,558 babies since 1880), Melonie (5,462 babies since 1880) and Melodi (2,072 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Meladie, Meladee and Miladie are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Meladie (62), Meladee (60), Miladie (5), Mellodee (5), Mellodie (5).
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 Melodie in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,606 | #1,528 |
| New York | 8 | #1,614 | #2,154 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,629 | #1,624 |
| California | 13 | #1,715 | #1,637 |
| Texas | 10 | #2,154 | #1,779 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 94 | #2,032 | — | — |
| 2024 | 111 | #1,818 | — | — |
| 2023 | 85 | #2,220 | — | — |
| 2022 | 74 | #2,459 | — | — |
| 2021 | 65 | #2,664 | — | — |
| 2020 | 91 | #2,044 | — | — |
| 2019 | 105 | #1,908 | — | — |
| 2018 | 86 | #2,185 | — | — |
| 2017 | 81 | #2,298 | — | — |
| 2016 | 98 | #2,029 | — | — |
| 2015 | 121 | #1,737 | — | — |
| 2014 | 96 | #2,044 | — | — |
| 2013 | 92 | #2,091 | — | — |
| 2012 | 100 | #1,968 | — | — |
| 2011 | 92 | #2,096 | — | — |
| 2010 | 119 | #1,750 | — | — |
| 2009 | 82 | #2,370 | — | — |
| 2008 | 70 | #2,655 | — | — |
| 2007 | 80 | #2,383 | — | — |
| 2006 | 77 | #2,431 | — | — |
| 2005 | 58 | #2,851 | — | — |
| 2004 | 77 | #2,280 | — | — |
| 2003 | 83 | #2,117 | — | — |
| 2002 | 62 | #2,540 | — | — |
| 2001 | 91 | #1,919 | — | — |
| 2000 | 70 | #2,252 | — | — |
| 1999 | 47 | #2,886 | — | — |
| 1998 | 61 | #2,331 | — | — |
| 1997 | 54 | #2,442 | — | — |
| 1996 | 51 | #2,497 | — | — |
| 1995 | 90 | #1,647 | — | — |
| 1994 | 75 | #1,900 | — | — |
| 1993 | 75 | #1,893 | — | — |
| 1992 | 75 | #1,887 | — | — |
| 1991 | 97 | #1,580 | — | — |
| 1990 | 79 | #1,822 | — | — |
| 1989 | 77 | #1,762 | — | — |
| 1988 | 79 | #1,655 | — | — |
| 1987 | 83 | #1,541 | — | — |
| 1986 | 96 | #1,355 | — | — |
| 1985 | 96 | #1,364 | — | — |
| 1984 | 102 | #1,258 | — | — |
| 1983 | 107 | #1,205 | — | — |
| 1982 | 105 | #1,247 | — | — |
| 1981 | 122 | #1,132 | — | — |
| 1980 | 142 | #1,021 | — | — |
| 1979 | 131 | #1,058 | — | — |
| 1978 | 144 | #965 | — | — |
| 1977 | 146 | #950 | — | — |
| 1976 | 122 | #1,023 | — | — |
| 1975 | 129 | #968 | — | — |
| 1974 | 134 | #933 | — | — |
| 1973 | 162 | #814 | — | — |
| 1972 | 152 | #853 | — | — |
| 1971 | 145 | #907 | — | — |
| 1970 | 131 | #967 | — | — |
| 1969 | 193 | #726 | — | — |
| 1968 | 171 | #761 | — | — |
| 1967 | 210 | #665 | — | — |
| 1966 | 208 | #674 | — | — |
| 1965 | 212 | #675 | — | — |
| 1964 | 217 | #705 | — | — |
| 1963 | 243 | #648 | — | — |
| 1962 | 232 | #673 | — | — |
| 1961 | 228 | #692 | — | — |
| 1960 | 312 | #554 | — | — |
| 1959 | 302 | #563 | — | — |
| 1958 | 307 | #558 | — | — |
| 1957 | 343 | #513 | — | — |
| 1956 | 409 | #451 | — | — |
| 1955 | 299 | #533 | — | — |
| 1954 | 191 | #674 | — | — |
| 1953 | 128 | #818 | — | — |
| 1952 | 148 | #731 | — | — |
| 1951 | 129 | #785 | — | — |
| 1950 | 96 | #911 | — | — |
| 1949 | 98 | #894 | — | — |
| 1948 | 69 | #1,065 | — | — |
| 1947 | 111 | #834 | — | — |
| 1946 | 74 | #976 | — | — |
| 1945 | 46 | #1,169 | — | — |
| 1944 | 41 | #1,246 | — | — |
| 1943 | 40 | #1,300 | — | — |
| 1942 | 48 | #1,149 | — | — |
| 1941 | 13 | #2,496 | — | — |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,772 | — | — |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,759 | — | — |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,652 | — | — |
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).