Mélody
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/melodi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mélody is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English melodie, melodye, from Old French melodie, from Latin melodia, from Ancient Greek μελῳδίᾱ (melōidíā, “singing, chanting”), from μέλος (mélos, “musical phrase”) + ἀοιδή (aoidḗ, “son.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 1.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- ZMZambia≈1 in 2.8K
- LALaos≈1 in 2.8K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 527 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈340,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Melody in US United States, PH Philippines, GB United Kingdom and 4 more and Melo in LA Laos.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Middle Englishmelodie(measured from records)
- Old Frenchmelodie(measured from records)
- Latinmelodia(measured from records)
- Ancient Greekμελῳδίᾱmelōidíā“singing, chanting”(measured from records)
- Ancient Greek rootμέλοςmélos“musical phrase”(measured from records)
From Middle English melodie, melodye, from Old French melodie, from Latin melodia, from Ancient Greek μελῳδίᾱ (melōidíā, “singing, chanting”), from μέλος (mélos, “musical phrase”) + ἀοιδή (aoidḗ, “song”), contracted form ᾠδή (ōidḗ).
Sources 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mélody counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈340,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | — | Melody | 51 |
| US United States | #568 | 86,671 | 1 in 3.8K | 87K | Melody | 527 |
| PH Philippines | #269 | ≈67,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Melody | 128 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Melody | 59 |
| GB United Kingdom | #661 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | 16 | Melody | 188 |
| ZM Zambia | #107 | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Melody | 17 |
| LA Laos | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Melo | 6 |
| SG Singapore | #357 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | Melody | 77 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mélody Dubosb. 1974FRFrench actress
- Mélody Vilbertb. 1976FRFrench beauty pageant contestant
- Mélody Dutotb. 1980FRresearcher
- Candice Pariseb. 1987FRnot in their usual nameFrench singer
- Mélody Moureyb. 1989FRFrench author and director
- Mélody Donchetb. 1990FRFreestyle football player
- Melody Julienb. 1999FRFrench long-distance runner
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 9 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mélody mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English melodie, melodye, from Old French melodie, from Latin melodia, from Ancient Greek μελῳδίᾱ (melōidíā, “singing, chanting”), from μέλος (mélos, “musical phrase”) + ἀοιδή (aoidḗ, “son… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 3 other sources.
- In which country does Mélody have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 337 thousand people named Mélody in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled melody.
- How do you pronounce Mélody?
- A machine transcription gives /melodi/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Mélody a male or female name?
- Mélody is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How common is the name Mélody?
- In the United States, the national register counted 86,671 people named Mélody in 2020, about 1 in 3.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Mélody compared with other names?
- In Zambia, Mélody is the 107th most common given name of 8,845 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%A9lodyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mélody” — the 107th most common given name in Zambia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.