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Melody

What does Melody mean?

Melody Pronunciation of Melody as a girls' name is pronounced MEL-a-dee. It is of Greek origin, and the meaning of Melody is "music, song". First used in the 13th century.

STARTS WITH Mel-

ASSOCIATED WITH greek, music (opera)

Variations

VARIANTS Melodee, Melodey, Melodi, Melodia, Melodie

SEE ALSO Choire, Harmony

CREATIVE FORMS
(female)

(male)


MIDDLE NAME PAIRINGS
Melody Elsie (M.E.), ..

How popular is Melody?

Melody is a very prominent first name for women (#349 out of 4276, Top 8%) and also a very prominent last name for all people (#27128 out of 150436, Top 18%). (2000 U.S. CENSUS)

Melody entered the list in 1930-1939 and reached its apex position of #137 in the U.S. in 2018. (TOP BABY NAMES, 2018)

Top 2000 baby names ranking of Melody name in U.S.

Top 100 baby names ranking of Melody outside U.S.

Which version is better?

Popular related forms of Melody (#137 FROM RECENT DATA) are Harmony (#175), Melodee and Melodie. These forms of Melody were at the top of their popularity 3 years ago (MEDIAN #1023) and have remained as common to this day (#1078, 1% LESS USAGE), but with the version Melodie becoming less in vogue. Harmony and Melody are two of the more fashionable names for newborns among these.



Top 2000 baby names ranking of Melody, Harmony, Melodee, Melodie in U.S.

Top 100 baby names ranking of Melody and related baby names outside U.S.

Similar Names

Melody is pronounced similarly to Melida and Milada. Other suggested similar-sounding names are Blondy, Cloudy, Cody, Dody, Elody, Goldy, Hedy, Heidy, Hildy, Jody, Kody, Maddy, Mady, Mallory, Mally, Malorey, Malori, Malory, Mandy, Mead, Meade, Meda, Medora, Meggy, Mel, Mela, Melana, Melaney, Melani, Melany, Melba, Melene, Melesa, Melia, Melina, Melinda, Melinde (see Melinda), Meline, Meliora, Melisa, Melise, Melita, Meliza, Mella, Mellba, Melli, Mellie, Melloney, Mellony, Melly, Meloni, Melonie, Melony, Melosa, Melva, Melvie, Melya, Melynda, Melyta, Menora, Mercey, Mercy, Merola, Merona, Merry, Mersey, Milly, Mindy, Mlada, Molley, Molly, Tildy and Wendy. These names tend to be less commonly used than Melody.

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