Mellody
- #8,860 for girls in 2025, 11 births
- Peak · girls
- 1956 · 16 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 500since 1946
Mellody over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Mellody has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,860 | 11 |
| 2024 | #7,594 | 14 |
| 2023 | #12,197 | 7 |
| 2022 | #11,231 | 8 |
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 |
| 2020 | #8,406 | 12 |
| 2019 | #10,473 | 9 |
| 2018 | #11,427 | 8 |
| 2017 | #14,124 | 6 |
| 2016 | #7,988 | 14 |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 |
| 2014 | #10,955 | 9 |
| 2013 | #13,150 | 7 |
| 2012 | #9,109 | 12 |
| 2011 | #9,150 | 12 |
| 2010 | #11,246 | 9 |
| 2009 | — | |
| 2008 | #15,405 | 6 |
| 2007 | #15,491 | 6 |
| 2006 | — | |
| 2005 | — | |
| 2004 | #14,179 | 6 |
| 2003 | #13,844 | 6 |
| 2002 | #13,595 | 6 |
| 2001 | #12,056 | 7 |
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| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 |
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| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 |
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| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 |
| 1986 | — | |
| 1985 | #10,677 | 5 |
| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 |
| 1983 | #9,015 | 6 |
| 1982 | — | |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 |
| 1980 | #6,789 | 9 |
| 1979 | #9,010 | 6 |
| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 |
| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 |
| 1976 | #4,905 | 12 |
| 1975 | — | |
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 |
| 1973 | #5,580 | 9 |
| 1972 | — | |
| 1971 | #5,543 | 9 |
| 1970 | #5,061 | 10 |
| 1969 | #5,057 | 9 |
| 1968 | #6,246 | 6 |
| 1967 | #4,053 | 11 |
| 1966 | #4,493 | 9 |
| 1965 | #4,831 | 8 |
| 1964 | #4,096 | 11 |
| 1963 | #4,539 | 9 |
| 1962 | #4,011 | 11 |
| 1961 | #3,608 | 13 |
| 1960 | #3,095 | 16 |
| 1959 | #3,619 | 12 |
| 1958 | #2,972 | 16 |
| 1957 | #3,489 | 12 |
| 1956 | #2,929 | 16 |
| 1955 | #4,069 | 9 |
| 1954 | #5,148 | 6 |
| 1953 | — | |
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| 1951 | #4,833 | 6 |
| 1950 | #5,301 | 5 |
| 1949 | #4,673 | 6 |
| 1948 | #5,243 | 5 |
| 1947 | — | |
| 1946 | #4,960 | 5 |
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First appearance
1946
The first year at least five girls were named Mellody! It came in at #4,960, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1946–1948, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Mellody is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Mellody in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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Momentum · girls
Holding steady
- 1,266 spots since 2024 (#7,594 → #8,860)
- 454 spots since 2020 (#8,406 → #8,860)
- 5,622 spots since 2015 (#14,482 → #8,860)
Rise & fade · girls
10 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1946
- Peaked 1956 at #2,929 (16 births)
- Births halved by 1965, 9 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 115,728
- Highest: 1 in 115,728 girls born in 2024 were named Mellody (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 146,115 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,929 in 1956, was only 1 in 125,481 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1960s
- 20.6% of all girls named Mellody (103) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 16 | #4,673 (1949) | #4,959 |
| 1950s | 82 | #2,929 (1956) | #4,045 |
| 1960s | 103 | #3,095 (1960) | #4,403 |
| 1970s | 63 | #4,905 (1976) | #6,985 |
| 1980s | 35 | #6,789 (1980) | #9,773 |
| 1990s | 11 | #11,738 (1992) | #12,930 |
| 2000s | 37 | #12,056 (2001) | #14,095 |
| 2010s | 92 | #7,988 (2016) | #11,210 |
| 2020s | 61 | #7,594 (2024) | #9,763 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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