Mélih
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mélih is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Ottoman Turkish ملیح (melih), from Arabic مَلِيح (malīḥ, “beautiful, graceful, elegant”).
- NLNetherlands1 in 37K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 47K
- SESweden1 in 106K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 130 (measured from records)
- 1 in 37K (inferred from the name graph)
461 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Melih in NL Netherlands, US United States.
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)- Ottoman Turkishملیحmelih(measured from records)
- Arabicمَلِيحmalīḥ“beautiful, graceful, elegant”(measured from records)
From Ottoman Turkish ملیح (melih), from Arabic مَلِيح (malīḥ, “beautiful, graceful, elegant”).
Cited for this meaning 3
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mélih 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 461 | 1 in 37K | 461 | Melih | 7 |
| US United States | 224 | 1 in 1.5M | 213 | Melih | 23 |
| DK Denmark | 126 | 1 in 47K | 126 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 96 | 1 in 106K | 96 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | 47 | 1 in 815K | 47 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | 8 | 1 in 263K | 8 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
461 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); SURS — resident population given names; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mélih mean, and where does it come from?
- From Ottoman Turkish ملیح (melih), from Arabic مَلِيح (malīḥ, “beautiful, graceful, elegant”). Recorded by TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- Is Mélih a male or female name?
- Mélih is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Mélih have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 461 people named Mélih, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled melih.
- Where is Mélih most common?
- Mélih is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 37 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Mélih?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 461 people named Mélih, about 1 in 37 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Mélih?
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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%A9lihThe 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, “Mélih”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.