| Gender | Feminine |
|---|---|
| Origin | |
| Word/name | English via Greek |
| Meaning | melody |
Melody is a modern English feminine given name taken from the vocabulary word melody, which is ultimately derived from the Greek μελῳδία, melōidía, "singing, chanting").[1][2]
Popularity
The name has been among the top one thousand names for girls in the United States since 1942 and was the 109th most popular name for American girls in 2022. It has been increasing in popularity in the English-speaking world in recent years. It has been among the top five hundred names for girls in England and Wales since 2003 and among the top three hundred names since 2010. It has also been well used in France and the Netherlands.[3]
Variants in use include the French Mélodie and Mélody and English spelling variants Mellody, Melodee, Melodey, Melodi, Melodie, and Melodii.[4]
People
People with the given name
- Melody Anderson (born 1955), Canadian-American actress and social worker
- Melody Barnes (born 1964), American lawyer and political advisor
- Melody Beattie (born 1948), American author
- Melody Chan, American mathematician and violinist
- Melody Currey (1950–2022), American politician
- Melody Gardot (born 1985), American musician
- Melody Harris-Jensbach (born 1961), American business executive
- Melody Horrill (born 1968), British-Australian journalist and author
- Mélody Johner (born 1984) Swiss equestrian
- Melody Kay (born 1979), American actress
- Melody McCray-Miller (born 1956), American politician
- Melody Perkins (born 1974), American actress, model and dancer
- Melody Thomas Scott (born 1956), American actress
- Melody Thornton (born 1984), American singer and television personality
People with the surname
- Tony Melody (1922–2008), English actor
People with the stage name
- Melody (Belgian singer) (born 1977), Belgian singer
- Melody (Brazilian singer) (born 2007), Brazilian singer
- Melody (actress) (born 1982), Burmese actress
- Melody (Japanese singer) (born 1982), Japanese singer
- Melody (Spanish singer) (born 1990), Spanish singer
Arts, entertainment, and media
Fictional entities
- Melody, a common potoo from Angry Birds 2 who loves to sing, introduced in 2022
- Melody, a character from the manga series Hunter × Hunter
- Melody, a pony character and singer from the TV series My Little Pony Tales
- Melodie the Music Fairy, a character from the book franchise Rainbow Magic
- Princess Melody, a character from the Walt Disney film The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea
- Melody-Melody, a character from the 1994 Peanuts special You're in the Super Bowl, Charlie Brown
- Melody Locus, a character in My Life as a Teenage Robot
- Melody Pendras, a main character in the Netflix series Archive 81 & in the podcast on which it is based
- Melody Piper, daughter of the Pied Piper from the fashion doll franchise Ever After High
- Melody Pond, aka River Song, a character in the TV show Doctor Who
- Melody Valentine (also known as Melody Jones), a character in the Josie and the Pussycats franchise
- My Melody, a character in the Sanrio franchise.