Mélus

surname · Latin script

Mélus is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 109K(measured from records)
  • CZCzechia1 in 289K
  • CLChile≈1 in 638K

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.

Spain (measured from records)

458 people

Sources
54 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 109K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Melus in ES Spain, CL Chile, US United States and 2 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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

  • Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mélus 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.

Where Mélus is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain4581 in 109K458Melus54
US United States≈72 est.≈1 in 4.6MlistedMelus14
CZ Czechia371 in 289K37——
CL Chile≈29 est.≈1 in 638K—Melus11
VE Venezuela≈19 est.≈1 in 1.5M—Melus8
DO Dominican Republic≈11 est.≈1 in 959K—Melus4

458 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Mélus is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Germany, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Melus, Melús, Meluš, Meluş

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Mélus under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Mélus have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 458 people named Mélus, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled melus.
Where is Mélus most common?
Mélus is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 109 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Mélus?
In Spain, the national register counted 458 people named Mélus, about 1 in 109 thousand residents.

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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, “Mélus”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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