Melodee
#7,885 for girls in 2025, 13 births
- Peak · girls
- 1955 · 102 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,722since 1933
Melodee over time
Rank among girls' names. Melodee has never cracked the top 900 here.
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 | #7,885 | 13 |
| 2024 | #4,772 | 28 |
| 2023 | #4,655 | 29 |
| 2022 | #4,671 | 29 |
| 2021 | #5,237 | 24 |
| 2020 | #5,003 | 25 |
| 2019 | #6,414 | 18 |
| 2018 | #5,785 | 21 |
| 2017 | #5,191 | 25 |
| 2016 | #4,083 | 36 |
| 2015 | #5,833 | 22 |
| 2014 | #5,163 | 26 |
| 2013 | #4,076 | 36 |
| 2012 | #4,121 | 36 |
| 2011 | #4,915 | 28 |
| 2010 | #3,516 | 45 |
| 2009 | #4,677 | 31 |
| 2008 | #7,073 | 18 |
| 2007 | #5,895 | 23 |
| 2006 | #6,125 | 21 |
| 2005 | #4,581 | 29 |
| 2004 | #6,489 | 18 |
| 2003 | #6,055 | 19 |
| 2002 | #5,897 | 19 |
| 2001 | #6,067 | 18 |
| 2000 | #8,534 | 11 |
| 1999 | #11,385 | 7 |
| 1998 | #3,831 | 30 |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 |
| 1996 | #9,581 | 8 |
| 1995 | #8,079 | 10 |
| 1994 | #8,122 | 10 |
| 1993 | #5,955 | 15 |
| 1992 | #10,479 | 7 |
| 1991 | #7,430 | 11 |
| 1990 | #5,835 | 15 |
| 1989 | #8,761 | 8 |
| 1988 | #8,391 | 8 |
| 1987 | #4,857 | 16 |
| 1986 | #5,459 | 13 |
| 1985 | #5,348 | 13 |
| 1984 | #3,874 | 20 |
| 1983 | #4,884 | 14 |
| 1982 | #2,770 | 33 |
| 1981 | #3,147 | 27 |
| 1980 | #3,609 | 22 |
| 1979 | #3,442 | 23 |
| 1978 | #3,196 | 24 |
| 1977 | #2,515 | 34 |
| 1976 | #2,664 | 29 |
| 1975 | #2,743 | 27 |
| 1974 | #2,757 | 26 |
| 1973 | #2,565 | 28 |
| 1972 | #2,903 | 23 |
| 1971 | #2,801 | 25 |
| 1970 | #2,120 | 38 |
| 1969 | #2,208 | 33 |
| 1968 | #1,887 | 40 |
| 1967 | #2,039 | 33 |
| 1966 | #1,882 | 37 |
| 1965 | #1,950 | 35 |
| 1964 | #1,610 | 50 |
| 1963 | #1,715 | 45 |
| 1962 | #1,419 | 61 |
| 1961 | #1,343 | 69 |
| 1960 | #1,294 | 72 |
| 1959 | #1,262 | 72 |
| 1958 | #1,157 | 84 |
| 1957 | #1,193 | 78 |
| 1956 | #1,002 | 104 |
| 1955 | #989 | 102 |
| 1954 | #1,164 | 73 |
| 1953 | #1,112 | 76 |
| 1952 | #1,269 | 56 |
| 1951 | #1,383 | 46 |
| 1950 | #1,302 | 49 |
| 1949 | #1,512 | 37 |
| 1948 | #1,386 | 44 |
| 1947 | #1,270 | 51 |
| 1946 | #1,419 | 38 |
| 1945 | #1,660 | 25 |
| 1944 | #1,609 | 26 |
| 1943 | #1,791 | 23 |
| 1942 | #2,117 | 17 |
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| 1939 | #3,782 | 6 |
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| 1937 | #3,800 | 6 |
| 1936 | #4,181 | 5 |
| 1935 | #4,204 | 5 |
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| 1933 | #4,218 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Melodee! It came in at #4,218, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1933–1936, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Melodee is popular in 1957
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Iowa#447 · 1 in 5,711
- Minnesota#448 · 1 in 6,410
- California#711 · 1 in 9,110
- Pennsylvania#907 · 1 in 23,623
- Illinois#984 · 1 in 21,690
Best ever in a state: #281 in Nebraska, 1948.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Iowa | #447 | 5 | 1 in 5,711 |
| Minnesota | #448 | 6 | 1 in 6,410 |
| California | #711 | 18 | 1 in 9,110 |
| Pennsylvania | #907 | 5 | 1 in 23,623 |
| Illinois | #984 | 5 | 1 in 21,690 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Melodee
- 3,113 spots since 2024 (#4,772 → #7,885)
- 2,882 spots since 2020 (#5,003 → #7,885)
- 2,052 spots since 2015 (#5,833 → #7,885)
- Biggest jump: 175 spots in 1955 (#1,164 → #989)
- Biggest drop: 13 spots in 1956 (#989 → #1,002)
- Debuted 1933
- Peaked 1955 at #989 (102 births)
- Births halved by 1963, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1955
- Highest: 1 in 19,169 girls born in 1955 were named Melodee (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 123,636 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 27.2% of all girls named Melodee (740) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 27 | #3,782 (1939) | #4,037 |
| 1940s | 261 | #1,270 (1947) | #1,596 |
| 1950s | 740 | #989 (1955) | #1,183 |
| 1960s | 475 | #1,294 (1960) | #1,735 |
| 1970s | 277 | #2,120 (1970) | #2,771 |
| 1980s | 174 | #2,770 (1982) | #5,110 |
| 1990s | 120 | #3,831 (1998) | #8,153 |
| 2000s | 207 | #4,581 (2005) | #6,139 |
| 2010s | 293 | #3,516 (2010) | #4,910 |
| 2020s | 148 | #4,655 (2023) | #5,371 |
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.
Melodee in 1957
Top girls' names in 1957
More about 1957
girls
2,044,851 girls got a published name in 1957; 1 in 26,216 of them was named Melodee, which outranked 83.0% of the 7,015 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,187Larita79
- #1,187Sammie79
- #1,187Sharyl79
- #1,193Melodee78
- #1,193Autumn78
- #1,193Dreama78
- #1,193Georgianna78
- #1,202Abbe77
- #1,202Becki77
- #1,202Cordelia77
Tied with 8 names at #1,193; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.