How Many People Are Named Melodie?

9,429

people named Melodie are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 36,248 people in the US has this name

Based on 10,502 babies named Melodie in Social Security records from 1933 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#2,542

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#1,403

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Peak Year

1956

409 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: French
Pronunciation: ME-LAW-DEE
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

French cognate of MELODY.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

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⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Melodie in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Melodie alive today is about 46 years old, and 37% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 28 and 65 in 2025.

Under 30 2,453
26%
30 to 59 3,481
36.9%
60 and over 3,495
37.1%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Melodie first appears in the records in 1933 and was given most often in 1956, to 409 babies. In 2025, 94 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1933 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Melodie has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #450, in 1956. In 2025 it ranked #2,032.

Girls
Rank in 2025#2,032
Best rank#450 (1956)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#597 in the 1950s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Melodie alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Melodie were born in California than in any other state: about 1,226 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Melodie was given 2.1 times as often in California, 2 times in Florida and 1.6 times in Texas.

California 1,226
Texas 698
New York 483
Ohio 408
Florida 376
Illinois 276
Pennsylvania 245
Michigan 222
North Carolina 184
Indiana 166
Washington 138
Missouri 116
Tennessee 112
Georgia 105
Virginia 88
Wisconsin 66
Louisiana 66
Iowa 65
Kentucky 54
Alabama 48
Maryland 39
Oklahoma 38
Kansas 35
Massachusetts 31
New Jersey 31
Colorado 31
Utah 30
South Carolina 29
Minnesota 28
Oregon 28
Arizona 19
Nebraska 13
Montana 13
Connecticut 10
New Mexico 8
West Virginia 7
Idaho 5
North Dakota 5
Arkansas 5
Maine 4
Mississippi 4

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