Mėlody
surname · Latin script
Mėlody is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 86,671 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020. 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. Mėlody is also written מלודי in Hebrew, เมโล in Thai and 멜로디 in Korean (Hangul).
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 1.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- ZMZambia≈1 in 2.5K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 3.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Mėlody itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 527 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
86,671 people, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Mėlody in other scripts: Hebrew, Thai and Korean (Hangul)
(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.
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).
Cited for this meaning 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)Mėlody 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #568 | 86,671 | 1 in 3.8K | 87K | Melody | 527 |
| PH Philippines | #269 | ≈85,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Melody | 128 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Melody | 59 |
| GB United Kingdom | #661 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | 16 | Melody | 188 |
| CA Canada | #547 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 4K | 20 | Melody | 227 |
| ZM Zambia | #107 | ≈8,400 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Melody | 17 |
| SG Singapore | #357 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Melody | 77 |
86,671 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mėlody 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Mėlody?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 87 thousand people named Mėlody, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled melody. After it come Philippines, Nigeria, United Kingdom and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Mėlody?
- In the United States, the national register counted 86,671 people named Mėlody in 2020, about 1 in 3.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Mėlody compared with other names?
- In the United States, Mėlody is the 568th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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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, “Mėlody” — ranked 611th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.