Melodie
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A female given name from English, of rather rare usage, variant of Melody
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Melodie is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 7.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 20K
- USUnited States1 in 39K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 350 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, 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 Mélodie in CH Switzerland.
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)
From French mélodie, ultimately Greek melōidia ‘song’
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Melodie is read(measured from records)
Melodie is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English58%
A female given name from English, of rather rare usage, variant of Melody.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French30%
From French mélodie, ultimately Greek melōidia ‘song’
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Origine grecque, « chanson ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Melodie 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #637 | ≈9,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.6K | 11K | Melodie | 269 |
| US United States | — | 8,549 | 1 in 39K | 8.5K | Melodie | 350 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Melodie | 41 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 110K | — | Melodie | 17 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 20K | 2 | Melodie | 141 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 5 | Melodie | 37 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Mélodie | 18 |
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; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Melodie is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Dutch, melody
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Dutch
In Dutch, melody (sequence of notes that makes up a major musical phrase)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, melody, tune (sequence of notes that makes up a musical phrase)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Melodie Johnsonb. 1943USAmerican actor and author
- Melodie McDanielb. 1967USAmerican photographer
- Melodie Robinsonb. 1973NZNew Zealand rugby union player
- Mélodie Lesueurb. 1990FRFrench racing cyclist
- Mélodie Daoustb. 1992CACanadian ice hockey player
- Mélodie zhaob. 1994CHSwiss pianist
- Melodie Wakivuaminab. 1996CHSwiss film actress
- Mélodie Collardb. 2003CACanadian tennis player
- Mélodie RichardFRFrench actress
- Mélodie ValembergBEBelgian actress
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 52 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2017 | 11K | #3,241 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 8.5K | #2,742 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2008 | 216 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2009 | 210 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2012 | 191 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 94 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 83 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 12 | #2,742 |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2024 | 2 | #1,544 |
| FR France | Dictionnaire Généalogique des Prénoms (Athias, 2007) | — | — | — |
| FR France | Le Grand Guide des Prénoms | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- Where does the name Melodie come from?
- From French mélodie, ultimately Greek melōidia ‘song’ Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- What does the name Melodie mean?
- In English, A female given name from English, of rather rare usage, variant of Melody.
- Is Melodie a male or female name?
- Melodie 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.
- In which country does Melodie have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.0 thousand people named Melodie in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled melodie.
- How common is the name Melodie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,549 people named Melodie in 2020, about 1 in 39 thousand residents.
- How common is Melodie compared with other names?
- In France, Melodie is the 637th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/melodieThe 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, “Melodie” — the 637th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.