Melody (given name)
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]
_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg.webp) Melody by Kate Elizabeth Bunce. | |
| Gender | Feminine |
|---|---|
| Origin | |
| Word/name | English via Greek |
| Meaning | melody |
Popularity
The name has been among the top one thousand names for girls in the United States since 1942 and was the 106th most popular name for American girls in 2020. 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, and Melodie.[4]
People
People with the given name
- Melody Anderson (born 1955), Canadian-American actress and social worker
- Melody Barnes (born 1964), Director of the Domestic Policy Council for Barack Obama's administration
- Melody Beattie (born 1948), self-help author
- Melody Brown (born 1984), musician, member of the musical ensemble The 5 Browns
- Melody Chan, American mathematician
- Melody Currey (born 1950), American politician
- Melody Gardot (born 1985), American musician
- Melody Harris-Jensbach (born 1961), Korean-American manager, deputy CEO and member of the board of Puma
- Melody Horrill (born 1968), weather presenter and reporter with Seven News in Adelaide
- Mélody Johner (born 1984) Swiss equestrian
- Melody Kay (born 1979), American actress
- Melody Lacayanga, dancer from So You Think You Can Dance
- Melody McCray-Miller (born 1956), Democratic member of the Kansas House of Representatives
- Melody Perkins (born 1974), actress
- Melody Thomas Scott (born 1956), American actress known for playing "Nikki" on The Young and the Restless
- Melody Thornton (born 1984), member of the Pussycat Dolls
People with the surname
- Tony Melody (1922-2008), English actor
People with the stage name
- Melody (Belgian singer), Nathalie Lefebvre (born 1977), Belgian singer
- Melody (Brazilian singer), Gabriella Abreu Severino (born 2007), Brazilian singer
- Melody (actress) (born 1982), Burmese actress
- Melody (Japanese singer), stylized as "melody.", Melody Ishihara (born 1982), Japanese pop singer
- Melody (Spanish singer), Melodía Ruiz Gutiérrez (born 1990), Spanish singer
- Melody Trouble Vixen, a female professional wrestler from the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling
- Melody, a UK garage MC and member of DJ Pied Piper and the Masters of Ceremonies
Arts, entertainment, and media
Fictional entities
- Melody (Hunter × Hunter), a character from the manga series Hunter × Hunter
- Melody Locus, a character in My Life as a Teenage Robot
- 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
- Princess Melody, a character from the Walt Disney film The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea
- Melody Piper, daughter of the Pied Piper from the fashion doll franchise Ever After High
- Melodie the Music Fairy, a character from the book franchise Rainbow Magic
- Melody (My Little Pony), a pony character from the TV series My Little Pony Tales
- Melody-Melody, a character from the 1994 Peanuts special You're in the Super Bowl, Charlie Brown
Notes
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