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Melody

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish

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Origin and Meaning

English name from the vocabulary word melody which is derived (via Old French and Late Latin) from Greek μελος (melos) = 'song' combined with αειδω (aeido) = 'to sing' [1]

Related Names

Melodi ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Melodia ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Melódía ♀
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Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Icelandic
Melodie ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Melody ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Melody
Genitive: Melodys
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Melody
Genitive: Melodyn
Partitive: Melodyä
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Melody
Genitive: Melodys
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Melody
Genitive: Melodys

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[3]
504 811 502 805 2 6
Denmark Denmark[4]
93
n.a.
 93
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Finland Finland[5]
n.a.
 132
n.a.
 132 0 0
Iceland Iceland[6]
5 6
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[7]
105
n.a.
 105
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[8]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Melody (f) Sources: [3][4][7][5]


References

  1. ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  2. ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  6. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  8. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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