as a First Name
Modern transferred use of the vocabulary word (Greek melōdia ‘singing of songs’, from melos ‘song’ + aeidein ‘to sing’), chosen partly because of its pleasant associations and partly under the influence of other girls' names with the same first syllable.
| 568th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 85,335
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Alaska
- has the most people named Melody per capita
- 1960
- marked the height of its popularity
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48%
30-54
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14%
13-29
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