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Melody: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 3,095 in 2025. Its best rank was #79 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Melody in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#79 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Melody: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 3,095 girls in 2025. Peak: #79 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 3,095 (2025).
In 2025, 3,095 US girls were named Melody, making it the 79th most common girls’ name of the year, up 12 places from #91 in 2024. That is 312 more than the 2,783 girls named Melody in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #79, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 3,095. For comparison, it was #148 in 2015 and #273 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Melody in 103 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 7 babies. In all, 115,084 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 19,885 babies named Melody.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 24,854 US girls were named Melody; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 3,095. In 2025 that was about 1 in 519 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Melody ranked highest in Hawaii in 2025, at #53 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 22 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Melodie (10,502 babies since 1880), Melony (4,459 babies since 1880), Melodi (2,072 babies since 1880) and Melodee (2,722 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Melodye, Mellody and Melo are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Lodi.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Melodye (816), Mellody (500), Melo (482), Elody (360), Milady (147), Melady (91), Melodey (50), Melodii (41), Melodia (26), Meledy (5), Mellodi (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.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 4 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 12 | #53 | #216 |
| Texas | 431 | #54 | #126 |
| California | 457 | #55 | #85 |
| Oklahoma | 49 | #61 | #179 |
| Maryland | 58 | #61 | #287 |
| Virginia | 95 | #62 | #260 |
| Arizona | 79 | #69 | #100 |
| South Dakota | 13 | #70 | #256 |
| Florida | 222 | #70 | #135 |
| New York | 185 | #72 | #213 |
| Nevada | 27 | #80 | #64 |
| Mississippi | 26 | #83 | #239 |
| Illinois | 98 | #84 | #160 |
| New Jersey | 86 | #84 | #190 |
| Rhode Island | 10 | #87 | #115 |
| North Carolina | 110 | #88 | #213 |
| Kentucky | 46 | #88 | #159 |
| Delaware | 9 | #91 | #145 |
| Oregon | 34 | #95 | #208 |
| New Mexico | 14 | #98 | #144 |
| Georgia | 89 | #99 | #235 |
| Washington | 62 | #100 | #168 |
| Tennessee | 70 | #102 | #185 |
| Colorado | 50 | #105 | #208 |
| North Dakota | 9 | #113 | #175 |
| Louisiana | 36 | #116 | #223 |
| Connecticut | 25 | #116 | #246 |
| Ohio | 90 | #117 | #221 |
| Alabama | 37 | #119 | #200 |
| Michigan | 68 | #121 | #142 |
| Massachusetts | 43 | #126 | #199 |
| Nebraska | 18 | #127 | #232 |
| Arkansas | 23 | #128 | #129 |
| Pennsylvania | 82 | #128 | #148 |
| Indiana | 50 | #132 | #172 |
| South Carolina | 34 | #132 | #196 |
| Wisconsin | 40 | #137 | #195 |
| Kansas | 23 | #142 | #168 |
| Utah | 32 | #143 | #131 |
| West Virginia | 11 | #148 | #393 |
| Missouri | 42 | #148 | #205 |
| Idaho | 14 | #152 | #96 |
| Minnesota | 35 | #156 | #162 |
| New Hampshire | 8 | #162 | #159 |
| Iowa | 19 | #171 | #192 |
| District of Columbia | 5 | #179 | — |
| Maine | 5 | #246 | #254 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3,095 | #79 | — | — |
| 2024 | 2,783 | #91 | — | — |
| 2023 | 2,572 | #103 | — | — |
| 2022 | 2,573 | #109 | — | — |
| 2021 | 2,466 | #113 | — | — |
| 2020 | 2,524 | #106 | — | — |
| 2019 | 2,466 | #118 | — | — |
| 2018 | 2,155 | #136 | 6 | #11,674 |
| 2017 | 2,072 | #144 | — | — |
| 2016 | 2,148 | #144 | — | — |
| 2015 | 2,178 | #148 | — | — |
| 2014 | 2,065 | #158 | — | — |
| 2013 | 1,867 | #172 | — | — |
| 2012 | 1,791 | #172 | — | — |
| 2011 | 1,562 | #201 | — | — |
| 2010 | 1,575 | #198 | — | — |
| 2009 | 1,452 | #226 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,220 | #280 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,143 | #296 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,107 | #299 | — | — |
| 2005 | 1,040 | #311 | — | — |
| 2004 | 1,018 | #312 | — | — |
| 2003 | 1,023 | #303 | — | — |
| 2002 | 1,045 | #297 | — | — |
| 2001 | 1,080 | #290 | — | — |
| 2000 | 720 | #399 | — | — |
| 1999 | 627 | #436 | — | — |
| 1998 | 708 | #390 | — | — |
| 1997 | 736 | #370 | — | — |
| 1996 | 664 | #399 | — | — |
| 1995 | 708 | #369 | — | — |
| 1994 | 730 | #358 | — | — |
| 1993 | 731 | #353 | — | — |
| 1992 | 906 | #308 | — | — |
| 1991 | 850 | #319 | — | — |
| 1990 | 867 | #315 | — | — |
| 1989 | 881 | #296 | 9 | #5,447 |
| 1988 | 884 | #283 | — | — |
| 1987 | 906 | #270 | 6 | #6,665 |
| 1986 | 935 | #269 | 8 | #5,165 |
| 1985 | 967 | #259 | — | — |
| 1984 | 1,088 | #234 | 8 | #4,833 |
| 1983 | 1,107 | #225 | 8 | #4,771 |
| 1982 | 1,115 | #229 | 5 | #7,012 |
| 1981 | 1,175 | #223 | 9 | #4,385 |
| 1980 | 1,317 | #199 | 5 | #6,915 |
| 1979 | 1,365 | #197 | 5 | #6,713 |
| 1978 | 1,330 | #195 | 5 | #6,445 |
| 1977 | 1,371 | #196 | — | — |
| 1976 | 1,215 | #199 | 8 | #4,270 |
| 1975 | 1,198 | #206 | — | — |
| 1974 | 1,198 | #211 | 7 | #4,464 |
| 1973 | 1,124 | #224 | 7 | #4,350 |
| 1972 | 1,122 | #242 | 5 | #5,492 |
| 1971 | 1,203 | #244 | — | — |
| 1970 | 1,176 | #262 | 6 | #4,559 |
| 1969 | 1,245 | #239 | 9 | #3,242 |
| 1968 | 1,282 | #230 | — | — |
| 1967 | 1,528 | #204 | — | — |
| 1966 | 1,707 | #192 | 5 | #4,328 |
| 1965 | 1,664 | #198 | 9 | #2,916 |
| 1964 | 1,897 | #192 | 5 | #4,427 |
| 1963 | 2,093 | #182 | — | — |
| 1962 | 2,026 | #185 | 7 | #3,525 |
| 1961 | 2,272 | #172 | 8 | #3,276 |
| 1960 | 2,755 | #153 | 5 | #4,412 |
| 1959 | 1,953 | #185 | — | — |
| 1958 | 1,743 | #194 | 10 | #2,752 |
| 1957 | 1,989 | #182 | 5 | #4,347 |
| 1956 | 2,389 | #155 | — | — |
| 1955 | 1,801 | #186 | — | — |
| 1954 | 1,546 | #199 | — | — |
| 1953 | 1,296 | #222 | — | — |
| 1952 | 1,131 | #232 | — | — |
| 1951 | 887 | #260 | — | — |
| 1950 | 791 | #273 | — | — |
| 1949 | 740 | #282 | — | — |
| 1948 | 739 | #281 | — | — |
| 1947 | 759 | #279 | — | — |
| 1946 | 538 | #322 | — | — |
| 1945 | 307 | #405 | — | — |
| 1944 | 200 | #512 | — | — |
| 1943 | 195 | #538 | — | — |
| 1942 | 202 | #523 | — | — |
| 1941 | 51 | #1,027 | — | — |
| 1940 | 26 | #1,540 | — | — |
| 1939 | 22 | #1,667 | — | — |
| 1938 | 29 | #1,403 | — | — |
| 1937 | 18 | #1,894 | — | — |
| 1936 | 18 | #1,852 | — | — |
| 1935 | 15 | #2,179 | — | — |
| 1934 | 16 | #2,061 | — | — |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,364 | — | — |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,776 | — | — |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,913 | — | — |
| 1930 | 17 | #2,084 | — | — |
| 1929 | 10 | #3,071 | — | — |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,452 | — | — |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,780 | — | — |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,307 | — | — |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,530 | — | — |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,501 | — | — |
| 1914 | 7 | #3,077 | — | — |
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).