Melody
Melody is a girl name of Greek origin, meaning Song; a sweet tune.
What Melody means
Song; a sweet tune.
Melody sits at 6 letters, and ends on a consonant, which gives it a firmer stop.
Where Melody comes from
Greek names often reach back to mythology, philosophy, or the early Church. They tend to be transparently meaningful in the original: many are compounds you can still take apart into their two halves.
Melody is recorded as Greek in origin. Browse other Greek names.
How popular is Melody?
Melody is not in the current top 100 girl names we track. In practice that means a child called Melody is unlikely to be one of three in a classroom — the name is established and recognisable, just not in heavy circulation right now.
The character of Melody
The thread we file Melody under is music — worth following if that association is what caught your attention in the first place.
Themes: Music
Names like Melody
These share Melody's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Calliope — Beautiful voice; muse of poetry.
- Echo — Reflected sound; a mountain nymph.
- Harmony — Perfect agreement and balance.
- Lyra — Lyre; harp.
- Lyric — The words of a song.
- Apollo — God of light, music and the sun.
- Orpheus — Beautiful voice.
- Aria — Air, melody; lioness.
- Wren — The small, spirited songbird.
- Cadence — Rhythm; a flowing beat.
- Cecilia — Patroness of music.
- Kavya — Poetry; a poem.