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How popular is the name Melody?
Births per year, rank history and how many Melodies are alive today.
Melody (female) sits just outside the top 100 girls' names in England and Wales, ranked 248th in 2025 with 188 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2023, when 192 babies were given the name, the 236th most popular that year. It was almost as popular in 2015, with 185 babies given the name that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 289 in 2024 before climbing back to the 248th place it holds today. Numbers have been stable in recent years. Melody is one spelling of a name also recorded as Melodie; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Melody you are most likely to meet is around 14 years old. Half of all Melodies born in England and Wales are between 7 and 19, and there are at least 4,400 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 1.4% chance that at least one of them will be called Melody.
How many babies are named Melody each year?
Includes all spellings: Melody, Melodie. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Melody spelling rank?
Where does the Melodie spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Melody most popular?
Melody peaked in 2023, when 203 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Melody?
At least 4,400 people named Melody in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Melody?
Most living Melodies are between 7 and 19; the most common age is about 14.
Is Melody becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.