Mélia
given name · Latin script
Meaning: frangipani or any of several similar plants of the genus Melia (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: INSEE, 2024
Mélia is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 4,704 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020.
- DKDenmark1 in 8.2K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 67K
- USUnited States1 in 71K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 276 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.2K (inferred from the name graph)
4,704 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Melia in US United States, PH Philippines.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)frangipani or any of several similar plants of the genus Melia
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mélia counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 4,704 | 1 in 71K | 4.7K | Melia | 276 |
| FR France | ≈930 est. | ≈1 in 74K | 2.7K | — | 3 |
| PH Philippines | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 135K | — | Melia | 17 |
| DK Denmark | 716 | 1 in 8.2K | 716 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 308 | 1 in 687K | 338 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 132 | 1 in 77K | 132 | — | 8 |
| FI Finland | 83 | 1 in 67K | 111 | — | 2 |
4,704 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Mélia is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, Mingrelian surname; ending -ia
as a nameRussian Surnames
In French, From Latin mel, meaning “honey”.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Melia Kreilingb. 1990GBBritish actress
- Melia WatrasUSAmerican musician
- Melia McEnerysecond wife of Eric Clapton
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mélia mean, and where does it come from?
- frangipani or any of several similar plants of the genus Melia Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Mélia a male or female name?
- Mélia is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: France (INSEE, 2024).
- Which countries have the most people named Mélia?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.7 thousand people named Mélia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled melia. After it come France, Philippines, Denmark and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Mélia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mélia is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 8.2 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mélia?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,704 people named Mélia in 2020, about 1 in 71 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Mélia?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%A9liaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mélia” — ranked 4101st in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.