Meléne

given name · Latin script

Meléne is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • GYGuyana1 in 150K(measured from records)
  • CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 296K
  • DKDenmark1 in 489K

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.

Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)

≈340 people, est.

Sources
53 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 150K (inferred from the name graph)

Guyana

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Melene in FR France, US United States, CD Congo - Kinshasa.

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.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Meléne 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 Meléne is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CD Congo - Kinshasa≈340 est.≈1 in 296K—Melene2
US United States1561 in 2.1M156Melene6
BR Brazil1361 in 1.6M136——
FR France≈14 est.≈1 in 4.7M—Melene53
DK Denmark121 in 489K12——
GY Guyana51 in 150K5——

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); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Meléne 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

Is Meléne a male or female name?
Meléne 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.
In which country does Meléne have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 344 people named Meléne in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled melene.
Where is Meléne most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Meléne is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 150 thousand people — even though Congo - Kinshasa holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Meléne?
In the United States, the national register counted 156 people named Meléne in 2020, about 1 in 2.1 million residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mel%C3%A9ne

The 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, “Meléne”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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