How popular is “Melody” in the USA?

Number of people named “Melody” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Melody” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Melody” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Melody” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Melody” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Melody” by birth year

This chart shows how “Melody” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1914	7	0.000004942	7		100%
1920	5	0.00000221	5		100%
1922	5	0.000002184	5		100%
1924	7	0.000002939	7		100%
1925	6	0.000002571	6		100%
1926	9	0.00000392	9		100%
1929	10	0.000004562	10		100%
1930	17	0.000007646	17		100%
1931	10	0.000004752	10		100%
1932	11	0.00000521	11		100%
1933	13	0.000006502	13		100%
1934	16	0.000007704	16		100%
1935	15	0.000007177	15		100%
1936	18	0.000008664	18		100%
1937	18	0.000008448	18		100%
1938	29	0.000013107	29		100%
1939	22	0.000009984	22		100%
1940	26	0.000011291	26		100%
1941	51	0.000020932	51		100%
1942	202	0.000073943	202		100%
1943	195	0.000069086	195		100%
1944	200	0.000074347	200		100%
1945	307	0.000115722	307		100%
1946	538	0.000168372	538		100%
1947	759	0.000210697	759		100%
1948	739	0.000214047	739		100%
1949	740	0.000212352	740		100%
1950	791	0.000225783	791		100%
1951	887	0.000240788	887		100%
1952	1131	0.000297788	1131		100%
1953	1296	0.000336305	1296		100%
1954	1546	0.000388373	1546		100%
1955	1801	0.000448559	1801		100%
1956	2389	0.000579427	2389		100%
1957	1995	0.000474758	1990	5	99%
1958	1752	0.000423812	1742	10	99%
1959	1952	0.000469457	1952		100%
1960	2761	0.00066469	2756	5	100%
1961	2280	0.000550419	2272	8	99%
1962	2031	0.000503299	2024	7	99%
1963	2093	0.000528776	2093		100%
1964	1902	0.000489247	1897	5	99%
1965	1673	0.00046146	1664	9	99%
1966	1712	0.000492569	1707	5	99%
1967	1529	0.000450382	1529		100%
1968	1282	0.000379468	1282		100%
1969	1254	0.00036083	1245	9	99%
1970	1182	0.00032774	1176	6	99%
1971	1203	0.000350488	1203		100%
1972	1127	0.000358575	1122	5	99%
1973	1131	0.00037489	1124	7	99%
1974	1205	0.000396382	1198	7	99%
1975	1198	0.000396768	1198		100%
1976	1223	0.000403058	1215	8	99%
1977	1371	0.000431608	1371		100%
1978	1335	0.000420622	1330	5	99%
1979	1370	0.000411782	1365	5	99%
1980	1322	0.0003838	1317	5	99%
1981	1184	0.000342258	1175	9	98%
1982	1120	0.000319274	1115	5	99%
1983	1115	0.000321944	1107	8	99%
1984	1096	0.000314152	1088	8	99%
1985	967	0.000270936	967		100%
1986	943	0.000265105	935	8	98%
1987	912	0.000252939	906	6	99%
1988	884	0.000239239	884		100%
1989	890	0.000231503	881	9	98%
1990	867	0.000219356	867		100%
1991	850	0.000218214	850		100%
1992	906	0.000235859	906		100%
1993	731	0.000193885	731		100%
1994	730	0.00019636	730		100%
1995	708	0.000193329	708		100%
1996	664	0.000182058	664		100%
1997	736	0.000202993	736		100%
1998	708	0.000192485	708		100%
1999	627	0.000169741	627		100%
2000	720	0.000190481	720		100%
2001	1080	0.000288509	1080		100%
2002	1045	0.000279539	1045		100%
2003	1023	0.000269046	1023		100%
2004	1018	0.000266428	1018		100%
2005	1040	0.000270492	1040		100%
2006	1107	0.000279815	1107		100%
2007	1143	0.000285916	1143		100%
2008	1220	0.00031038	1220		100%
2009	1451	0.000379826	1451		100%
2010	1575	0.000426166	1575		100%
2011	1561	0.00042676	1561		100%
2012	1790	0.000489423	1790		100%
2013	1866	0.000511841	1866		100%
2014	2065	0.000557148	2065		100%
2015	2178	0.000588504	2178		100%
2016	2147	0.000585221	2147		100%
2017	2071	0.000579107	2071		100%
2018	2160	0.000614352	2154	6	99%
2019	2461	0.000709031	2461		100%
2020	2522	0.000754959	2522		100%
2021	2466	0.000727874	2466		100%
2022	2572	0.000760242	2572		100%
2023	2569	0.000775853	2569		100%
2024	2771	0.000832507	2771		100%

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