Mélly
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mélly is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 482 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): scattered: esp. Lancs; also. from Ó Meallaigh ‘descendant of Meallach’, a personal name based on meall ‘pleasant’.
- SESweden1 in 276K(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 351K
- GYGuyana1 in 375K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 105 (measured from records)
- 1 in 276K (inferred from the name graph)
482 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Melly in 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)Main GB Location (1881): scattered: esp. Lancs; also. from Ó Meallaigh ‘descendant of Meallach’, a personal name based on meall ‘pleasant’.
Cited for this meaning 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
- Nordic Names
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mélly 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 | 482 | 1 in 690K | 454 | Melly | 22 |
| BR Brazil | 86 | 1 in 2.5M | 86 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 37 | 1 in 276K | 37 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 7 | 1 in 2.5M | 7 | — | 2 |
| DK Denmark | 6 | 1 in 978K | 6 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 2 | 1 in 375K | 2 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
482 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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; 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 Mélly mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): scattered: esp. Lancs; also. from Ó Meallaigh ‘descendant of Meallach’, a personal name based on meall ‘pleasant’. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history] and 1 other source.
- Is Mélly a male or female name?
- Mélly is a female 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Mélly?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 482 people named Mélly, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled melly. After it come Brazil, Sweden, Netherlands and Denmark; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Mélly most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mélly is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 276 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mélly?
- In the United States, the national register counted 482 people named Mélly in 2020, about 1 in 690 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Mélly?
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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%A9llyThe 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, “Mélly” — ranked 21175th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.