Melànie
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Melànie is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country, where it is the 93rd most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Latin Melania, from Ancient Greek μέλας (mélas, “black, dark”). Melànie is also written מלני in Hebrew, Мелани in Cyrillic and เมลาณ in Thai.
- ATAustria≈1 in 260(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 320
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 400
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Melànie itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- #396 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 595 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 263 (inferred from the name graph)
≈260,000 people, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Melànie in other scripts: Hebrew, Cyrillic, Thai and 1 more
(measured from records)Locally spelled Melanie in US United States, FR France, DE Germany and 4 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)- LatinMelania(measured from records)
- Ancient Greekμέλαςmélas“black, dark”(measured from records)
From Latin Melania, from Ancient Greek μέλας (mélas, “black, dark”).
Cited for this meaning 4
- Irish first names
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Melànie 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #93 | ≈260,000 est. | ≈1 in 318 | — | Melanie | 292 |
| US United States | #261 | 225,738 | 1 in 1.5K | 225K | Melanie | 595 |
| PH Philippines | #76 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 613 | — | Melanie | 144 |
| FR France | #88 | ≈99,000 est. | ≈1 in 691 | 133K | Melanie | 373 |
| GB United Kingdom | #198 | ≈68,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | listed | Melanie | 325 |
| AT Austria | #79 | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 263 | 17K | Melanie | 146 |
| CH Switzerland | #87 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 403 | 28 | Melanie | 127 |
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; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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 Melànie mean, and where does it come from?
- From Latin Melania, from Ancient Greek μέλας (mélas, “black, dark”). Recorded by Irish first names and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
- Is Melànie a male or female name?
- Melànie 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 Melànie?
- Mondonomo estimates about 263 thousand people named Melànie in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled melanie. After it come United States, Philippines, France and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Melànie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 225,738 people named Melànie in 2020, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Melànie compared with other names?
- In Germany, Melànie is the 93rd most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Melànie?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mel%C3%A0nieThe 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, “Melànie” — the 93rd most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.