Méloche
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Méloche is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Respelling of French Maloche, probably a habitational name from Les Malochets in Allier or alternatively a variant of Malosse, also a habitational name, from a place so named in Chaudeyrolles in Haute.
- CACanada≈1 in 23K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 397K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 39K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 180 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Meloche in US United States, CA Canada, GB United Kingdom and 5 more.
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)
- Les Malochetsin(measured from records)
- La Malossein(measured from records)
Respelling of French Maloche, probably a habitational name from Les Malochets in Allier or alternatively a variant of Malosse, also a habitational name, from a place so named in Chaudeyrolles in Haute-Loire or from La Malosse in Seine-et-Mame.
Sources 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Méloche 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 119K | — | Meloche | 2 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Meloche | 137 |
| US United States | 838 | 1 in 397K | 838 | Meloche | 180 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 416K | — | Meloche | 32 |
| IT Italy | ≈94 est. | ≈1 in 661K | — | Meloche | 3 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈92 est. | ≈1 in 186K | — | Meloche | 1 |
| EE Estonia | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Meloche | 1 |
| IE Ireland | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 207K | — | Meloche | 2 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010. 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 Méloche mean, and where does it come from?
- Respelling of French Maloche, probably a habitational name from Les Malochets in Allier or alternatively a variant of Malosse, also a habitational name, from a place so named in Chaudeyrolles in Haute… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition.
- In which country does Méloche have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Méloche in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled meloche.
- How common is the name Méloche?
- In the United States, the national register counted 838 people named Méloche in 2010, about 1 in 397 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%A9locheThe 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, “Méloche”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.