Méloy
surname · Latin script
Méloy is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Norwegian Meløy.
- USUnited States1 in 262K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 37M
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)
- Sources
- 74 (measured from records)
- 1 in 262K (inferred from the name graph)
1,272 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Meloy in US United States, FR France, GB United Kingdom.
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)
Borrowed from Norwegian Meløy.
Sources 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Where in the world(measured from records)
Méloy 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 | 1,272 | 1 in 262K | 1.4K | Meloy | 74 |
| FR France | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 37M | 1 | Meloy | 44 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | — | Meloy | 23 |
1,272 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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 Méloy mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Norwegian Meløy. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Méloy have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Méloy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled meloy.
- Where is Méloy most common?
- Méloy is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 262 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Méloy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,272 people named Méloy in 2010, about 1 in 262 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%A9loyThe 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, “Méloy”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.