Melody
Top 1000
About Melody
A melodious choice big in the 60s, Melody is now starting to pick up tempo again. It cracked the Top 100 for the first time ever in 2024. Melody is also the name of Ariel's equally curious and more tomboyish daughter in The Little Mermaid sequel. Read more about Melody and other Disney Princess Names in our featured blog.
Pronounced MEL-uh-dee.
As of October 2026, Melody ranked #79 in US births in 2025 SSA, Nameberry popularity #977.
Editor: Pamela Redmond
Sources: US popularity data is from the Social Security Administration. Meanings and origins are from Nameberry's name references.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #158 | 2,065 | 1,156 |
| 2015 | #148 | 2,178 | 1,220.1 |
| 2016 | #144 | 2,147 | 1,211.6 |
| 2017 | #144 | 2,071 | 1,199.6 |
| 2018 | #136 | 2,154 | 1,266.3 |
| 2019 | #118 | 2,461 | 1,466.3 |
| 2020 | #106 | 2,522 | 1,560.1 |
| 2021 | #113 | 2,466 | 1,502.9 |
| 2022 | #109 | 2,572 | 1,568.2 |
| 2023 | #102 | 2,569 | 1,601 |
| 2024 | #91 | 2,771 | 1,710.3 |
| 2025 | #79 | 3,095 | 1,925.6 |
World rankings
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Melody on lists
Famous Melodys
- Melody Gardot
American singer
- Melody Anderson
Canadian actress
- Melody Thornton
singer of American group The Pussycat Dolls
- Melody C. Barnes
Director of the U.S. Domestic Policy Council
- Melody Cooper
New Zealand field hockey player
- Melody Lacayanga
American dancer
- Melody Perkins
German,American actress
- Melody Ann Thomas Scott
American actress
- Melody Ishihara
Japanese singer
- Melody
stage name of Melodía Ruiz Gutiérrez, Spanish singer
- Melody
stage name of Nathalie Lefebvre, Belgian singer
- Melody
stage name of Gabriella Abreu Severino, Brazilian singer
- Melody Van Zant
daughter of singer Ronnie Van Zant of Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Melody Lane Ward
daughter of actor Burt Ward
- Melody Rain Covino (b. 2009)
daughter of TV personality Layla Kayleigh and Steve Covino
- Melody Rose Sterling (b. 2012)
daughter of footballer Raheem Sterling
- Lily
Rose Melody Depp, daughter of actor Johnny Depp
- Skyler Melody Wexler
American actress
Melody in pop culture
- Melody Ellison
American Girl character
- Melody
daughter of Ariel in Disney's "The Little Mermaid 2"
- Melody Plumb
character in novel "The Nest"
- Melody Pond aka River Song
character on TV's "Doctor Who"
- Melody Brooks
main character in "Out of My Mind" by Sharon Draper
- Melody Carver
character in the "Monster High" series by Lisi Harrison
- Melody
main character in the Bumped series by Megan McCafferty, twin sister of Harmony
- Melody Goldblatt
character in "The Popularity Papers" by Amy Ignatow
- Melody Bledsoe
character on TV's "Switched at Birth"
- Melody Babcock
character on Canadian parody soap "Le coeur a ses raisons"
- Melody Jones
character on Australian soap "Home and Away"
- Melody "Mellie" Grant
character on TV's "Scandal"
- Melody
character in Japanese horror movie "House"
- Melody Angel aka Magnolia Jones
character on TV's "Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons"
- Melody Bostic
character in comedy movie "Easy A"
- Melody Pianissima
a ghost in the video game Luigi's Mansion
- Melody Prower
character from the Sonic the Hedgehog comics
- Melody Valentine
character in the Josie and the Pussycats series
- Melody Piper
daughter of the Pied Piper in the Ever After High series