Mellody
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- MEL-o-dee
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #8,858 for girls
Mellody is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “song, melody”. In 2025 it ranked 8,858th for girls in the US (11 babies).
What does Mellody mean?
English: spelling of Melody; English word, from Greek
“song, melody”
From the English word, which comes from Greek melos, song, and oide, singing.
Meaning borrowed from Melody. More on Wiktionary.
Is Mellody a girl's or a boy's name?
Mellody is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 11 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Mellody in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #8,858among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 11about 1 in 150,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 11 girls in the US were named Mellody, making it the 8,858th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,401st. Its busiest year was 1956, with 16 girls. It first appears in the records in 1946.
Half of all the girls named Mellody in the US since 1880 were born between 1961 and 2012, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 3,266 girls in the US were given Mellody or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #94, up from #8,858 for this spelling alone.
Mellody in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #8,858 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,590 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,192 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,225 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,287 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,401 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,467 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,422 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,120 |
| 2016 | 14 | #7,985 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,477 |
| 2014 | 9 | #10,949 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,145 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,105 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,146 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,240 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,399 |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,485 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,172 |
| 2003 | 6 | #13,837 |
| 2002 | 6 | #13,589 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,049 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,116 |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 6 | #11,730 |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,320 |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,672 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,417 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,013 |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,409 |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,788 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,008 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,560 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,442 |
| 1976 | 12 | #4,903 |
| 1975 | 0 | – |
| 1974 | 5 | #8,773 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,578 |
| 1972 | 0 | – |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,541 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,060 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,056 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,244 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,052 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,492 |
| 1965 | 8 | #4,830 |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,095 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,538 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,010 |
| 1961 | 13 | #3,607 |
| 1960 | 16 | #3,094 |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,618 |
| 1958 | 16 | #2,971 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,488 |
| 1956 | 16 | #2,928 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,068 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,146 |
| 1953 | 0 | – |
| 1952 | 0 | – |
| 1951 | 6 | #4,832 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,299 |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,672 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,241 |
| 1947 | 0 | – |
| 1946 | 5 | #4,958 |
Nicknames for Mellody
Names like Mellody
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Everly Ivy Kimberly Legacy Klarity Blakely Royalty Heavenly Waverly Harmony Rory Kennedy
Other spellings of Mellody
More English names
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Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Mellody: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/mellody, updated 20 October 2026.