Melody Forename
4,359th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 240,570 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Solomon Islands
Melody Forename Definition:
A female name. this is apparently the ordinary word melody used as a christian name, but there is no clue to show how it came to be so used. It is recorded in Shropshire at the end of the 18th C and in Somerset c. 1880.
Melody Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 100% | 97,252 | 1:3,728 | 598 |
| Philippines | 98% | 61,178 | 1:1,733 | 368 |
| Zambia | - | 19,753 | 1:803 | 178 |
| Zimbabwe | 93% | 10,445 | 1:1,477 | 273 |
| Nigeria | 75% | 7,973 | 1:22,271 | 2,196 |
| Kenya | 100% | 5,812 | 1:7,968 | 1,094 |
| Canada | 100% | 5,482 | 1:6,044 | 875 |
| Ghana | 100% | 4,158 | 1:6,490 | 736 |
| South Africa | 98% | 3,243 | 1:16,815 | 2,472 |
| England | 100% | 2,720 | 1:20,442 | 1,297 |
| India | 100% | 2,027 | 1:599,348 | 45,751 |
| Namibia | - | 1,657 | 1:1,451 | 294 |
| China | - | 1,618 | 1:844,287 | 32,342 |
| Malawi | 55% | 1,333 | 1:12,837 | 1,321 |
| France | 100% | 1,256 | 1:52,922 | 1,567 |
| Spain | 100% | 1,066 | 1:43,649 | 1,853 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 933 | 1:33,025 | 4,029 |
| Australia | - | 926 | 1:14,749 | 1,170 |
| Solomon Islands | 100% | 878 | 1:662 | 136 |
| Mexico | 99% | 839 | 1:147,967 | 3,099 |
| New Zealand | - | 557 | 1:8,144 | 937 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 489 | 1:34,565 | 2,713 |
| Peru | 100% | 476 | 1:66,789 | 2,913 |
| Bangladesh | - | 458 | 1:348,169 | 14,530 |
| Papua New Guinea | 92% | 429 | 1:19,003 | 1,889 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 385 | 1:56,131 | 3,526 |
| Brazil | 100% | 366 | 1:585,345 | 18,234 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 324 | 1:73,363 | 9,743 |
| Thailand | 100% | 300 | 1:233,553 | 14,533 |
| Vanuatu | - | 292 | 1:897 | 247 |
| Indonesia | 100% | 283 | 1:911,532 | 58,134 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 266 | 1:39,215 | 2,883 |
| Malaysia | 96% | 265 | 1:114,905 | 7,775 |
| Hong Kong | - | 263 | 1:29,478 | 2,359 |
| Belgium | 100% | 240 | 1:47,875 | 2,403 |
| Poland | 100% | 236 | 1:161,132 | 3,078 |
| Uganda | 90% | 221 | 1:185,325 | 6,612 |
| Chile | 100% | 220 | 1:80,033 | 2,262 |
| Tanzania | 74% | 217 | 1:243,264 | 9,298 |
| Jamaica | - | 214 | 1:13,473 | 1,350 |
| Singapore | 100% | 205 | 1:30,669 | 5,860 |
| Kuwait | - | 190 | 1:19,922 | 2,136 |
| Qatar | 95% | 179 | 1:13,238 | 2,052 |
| Egypt | 100% | 152 | 1:604,611 | 14,932 |
| Morocco | - | 136 | 1:252,564 | 6,008 |
| Swaziland | - | 128 | 1:10,158 | 1,360 |
| DR Congo | 71% | 123 | 1:600,224 | 20,154 |
| Fiji | - | 115 | 1:7,760 | 1,571 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 107 | 1:282,261 | 9,142 |
| Bahrain | - | 104 | 1:12,968 | 2,016 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 100 | 1:18,431 | 954 |
| Botswana | 100% | 100 | 1:21,844 | 2,610 |
| Sweden | 99% | 100 | 1:98,579 | 4,257 |
| Germany | 100% | 98 | 1:986,509 | 7,770 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 97 | 1:84,675 | 2,890 |
| Panama | 100% | 96 | 1:40,693 | 2,988 |
| Scotland | 100% | 91 | 1:58,795 | 1,735 |
| Wales | 98% | 86 | 1:35,980 | 1,482 |
| Argentina | 100% | 79 | 1:541,433 | 3,847 |
| Portugal | - | 65 | 1:160,167 | 3,695 |
| Ecuador | - | 56 | 1:316,552 | 4,273 |
| Lebanon | 100% | 53 | 1:106,181 | 3,303 |
| Japan | - | 51 | 1:2,509,531 | 21,420 |
| Russia | 100% | 47 | 1:3,068,802 | 17,759 |
| Guam | - | 42 | 1:3,825 | 732 |
| Marshall Islands | 100% | 42 | 1:1,220 | 160 |
| Honduras | 100% | 41 | 1:215,060 | 4,860 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 39 | 1:122,255 | 3,564 |
| Iran | - | 37 | 1:2,121,537 | 12,701 |
| Myanmar | - | 36 | 1:1,443,008 | 744 |
| Bermuda | - | 32 | 1:2,026 | 445 |
| Uruguay | 100% | 32 | 1:107,114 | 2,682 |
| Italy | 100% | 31 | 1:1,969,745 | 13,753 |
| Ireland | 100% | 30 | 1:154,784 | 3,255 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 30 | 1:200,611 | 5,115 |
| American Samoa | - | 26 | 1:2,148 | 357 |
| Cayman Islands | - | 26 | 1:2,358 | 517 |
| Liberia | 100% | 24 | 1:183,836 | 6,655 |
| Denmark | - | 22 | 1:256,795 | 5,179 |
| French Polynesia | - | 22 | 1:12,632 | 1,507 |
| Colombia | 100% | 20 | 1:2,388,946 | 18,551 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 20 | 1:28,202 | 1,466 |
| Norway | 100% | 19 | 1:270,123 | 6,107 |
| New Caledonia | 100% | 17 | 1:15,892 | 1,309 |
| Paraguay | 100% | 17 | 1:425,694 | 4,581 |
| El Salvador | - | 16 | 1:396,362 | 4,002 |
| Iceland | - | 16 | 1:22,876 | 1,561 |
| South Korea | 100% | 15 | 1:369,628 | 10,743 |
| Iraq | 100% | 14 | 1:2,501,276 | 13,388 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 14 | 1:3,905 | 670 |
| Austria | 100% | 13 | 1:654,939 | 5,517 |
| Greece | 100% | 13 | 1:841,119 | 8,698 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 13 | 1:273,100 | 2,915 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 13 | 1:8,442 | 1,163 |
| Macau | - | 12 | 1:50,684 | 561 |
| Oman | - | 12 | 1:342,389 | 4,330 |
| Belize | 100% | 11 | 1:32,210 | 2,977 |
| Congo | 67% | 11 | 1:455,382 | 8,101 |
| Guatemala | 100% | 11 | 1:1,464,403 | 5,160 |
| Vietnam | - | 11 | 1:8,420,283 | 3,954 |
| Israel | - | 10 | 1:840,292 | 12,787 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 10 | 1:715,199 | 24,449 |
| Cambodia | 67% | 9 | 1:1,808,148 | 22,232 |
| Bahamas | - | 8 | 1:49,921 | 1,259 |
| Finland | 92% | 8 | 1:685,398 | 7,121 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 8 | 1:170,177 | 9,829 |
| Bolivia | - | 6 | 1:1,766,901 | 4,084 |
| Czechia | 100% | 6 | 1:1,776,027 | 4,577 |
| Benin | - | 5 | 1:2,115,169 | 40,564 |
| Ivory Coast | 100% | 5 | 1:4,615,187 | 69,481 |
| Kazakhstan | 75% | 5 | 1:3,549,369 | 21,516 |
| Turkey | 100% | 5 | 1:15,560,342 | 40,635 |
| Georgia | 100% | 4 | 1:934,616 | 13,351 |
| Laos | - | 4 | 1:1,646,714 | 900 |
| Madagascar | - | 4 | 1:5,907,352 | 4,093 |
| Rwanda | - | 4 | 1:2,842,858 | 2,668 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 4 | 1:5,199,772 | 10,550 |
| Belarus | 100% | 3 | 1:3,160,795 | 12,102 |
| Jersey | - | 3 | 1:33,327 | 1,495 |
| Afghanistan | - | 2 | 1:16,311,758 | 48,279 |
| Brunei | - | 2 | 1:209,785 | 2,478 |
| Bulgaria | - | 2 | 1:3,495,195 | 19,668 |
| Guyana | - | 2 | 1:381,631 | 18,312 |
| Haiti | - | 2 | 1:5,363,476 | 32,317 |
| Latvia | - | 2 | 1:1,007,822 | 4,547 |
| Mauritius | - | 2 | 1:648,892 | 8,630 |
| Montserrat | - | 2 | 1:2,438 | 412 |
| Pakistan | - | 2 | 1:97,178,840 | 228,758 |
| Algeria | - | 1 | 1:38,176,720 | 32,669 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 1 | 1:99,395 | 3,544 |
| Armenia | - | 1 | 1:2,918,753 | 14,910 |
| Azerbaijan | 100% | 1 | 1:9,642,944 | 42,290 |
| Bhutan | - | 1 | 1:824,928 | 6,865 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | - | 1 | 1:3,524,458 | 8,651 |
| British Virgin Islands | - | 1 | 1:31,250 | 1,787 |
| Burundi | - | 1 | 1:9,906,559 | 2,558 |
| Cook Islands | - | 1 | 1:18,153 | 1,349 |
| Croatia | - | 1 | 1:4,217,076 | 20,943 |
| Eritrea | 100% | 1 | 1:4,752,977 | 997 |
| Ethiopia | - | 1 | 1:97,560,133 | 29,608 |
| Falkland Islands | - | 1 | 1:3,142 | 392 |
| Guernsey | - | 1 | 1:63,331 | 901 |
| Hungary | 100% | 1 | 1:9,791,771 | 6,528 |
| Isle of Man | - | 1 | 1:85,023 | 723 |
| Jordan | - | 1 | 1:8,826,774 | 11,126 |
| North Macedonia | - | 1 | 1:2,090,757 | 15,787 |
| Micronesia | - | 1 | 1:106,500 | 1,462 |
| Moldova | - | 1 | 1:3,561,139 | 8,690 |
| Monaco | - | 1 | 1:38,466 | 2,379 |
| Mongolia | - | 1 | 1:2,934,814 | 16,205 |
| Mozambique | - | 1 | 1:27,243,357 | 5,091 |
| Nauru | 100% | 1 | 1:11,927 | 903 |
| Romania | - | 1 | 1:20,051,976 | 55,376 |
| Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha | - | 1 | 1:5,829 | 386 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 1 | 1:177,815 | 8,104 |
| Samoa | - | 1 | 1:195,190 | 1,348 |
| Senegal | 100% | 1 | 1:14,581,356 | 34,505 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 1 | 1:7,088,663 | 1,497 |
| Suriname | - | 1 | 1:552,811 | 5,457 |
| Tunisia | - | 1 | 1:676,902 | 12,933 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | - | 1 | 1:34,707 | 1,398 |
The alternate forms: Mélody (506) are calculated separately.
Melody (4,448) may also be a surname.
Melody Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A female name. this is apparently the ordinary word melody used as a christian name, but there is no clue to show how it came to be so used. It is recorded in Shropshire at the end of the 18th C and in Somerset c. 1880.
— The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names (1947) by E. G. Withycombe
F. An English rural name—and a beautiful. It occurs, for instance, in Beatrice Kean Seymour’s Daughter to Philip, 1933.
— Name This Child (1959) by Eric Partridge
Melody Forename Popularity
Melody Demographics
Melody Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Sample size: 139 (2018)
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