Melody is an English first name, that is derived from the Greek word ‘melodia’. It means ‘song’ and was used in ancient Greece to describe a beautiful or pleasing sound, especially music.
Melody is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Melody isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Melody ranks 130. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 14 were named Melody. In the entire USA, approximately 103,873 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Melody. That is 0.03 % of all living Americans.
Melody is an English first name, that is derived from the Greek word ‘melodia’. It means ‘song’ and was used in ancient Greece to describe a beautiful or pleasing sound, especially music.
Melody is the name of... a Bulgarian and a Malaysian radio station. They launched in 2007 and 2012, respectively.
The name Melody may not be in the top rankings of the most popular girls’ names, but it is one of the few female given names, along with only 536 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Melody is apparently especially popular in Nevada. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 693 women in Nevada is called Melody. In total, that’s 645 women who feel addressed when the name Melody is shouted loudly across Nevada and who ensure that their name makes it to #194 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names in this nice state. If you asked all women in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Melody as the answer a total of 103,873 times. This places Melody at #323 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular women’s names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living women across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Melody as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 8.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A and S are more common for girls' names.
With six letters, the name Melody is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all girls' names start with an M, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the girls’ names starting with M is Mary.
If your name is Melody and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Melody, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Melody
Melody
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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D
Y
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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D
Y
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Melody sounds like this:
