Melaño

Name: Melaño: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-10

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Melaño is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.

rarermore common

ARArgentina1 in 32K(measured from records)
PHPhilippines≈1 in 55K
UYUruguay1 in 15K

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.

: Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
Sources: 61 (measured from records)
: 1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Melano

Locally spelled Melano in AR Argentina, PH Philippines, CO Colombia and 3 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.

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Melaño 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 Melaño is recorded, by country
Country				Most common spelling	Sources
PH Philippines	≈2,000 est.	≈1 in 55K	—	Melano	18
AR Argentina	1,404	1 in 32K	1.4K	Melano	61
CO Colombia	≈710 est.	≈1 in 69K	—	Melano	27
UY Uruguay	233	1 in 15K	233	Melano	10
IT Italy	≈210 est.	≈1 in 293K	listed	Melano	6
CL Chile	≈180 est.	≈1 in 102K	—	Melano	13

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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)

Melaño is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

English surname7 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Australia, United Kingdom
Languages: English, Dutch
Also written Melano, Mëlánô, Mélänô
Finnish surname3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Philippines
Also written Melano
French surname7 spellings in the group
Most recorded in France, Philippines, United States, Canada
Also written Melano, Mélano, Mélàno, Mélànô, Męlãnô

3 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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)

Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Melaño
Country	Register	Year	Count	Rank
AR Argentina	RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror)	1982	3	—

Frequently asked questions

Is Melaño a male or female name?: Melaño 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 Melaño have the most bearers?: Mondonomo estimates about 2.0 thousand people named Melaño in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled melano.
Where is Melaño most common?: Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Melaño is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 15 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Melaño?: In Argentina, the national register counted 1,404 people named Melaño, about 1 in 32 thousand residents.

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Query this name via API

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mela%C3%B1o

The same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.

About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of 2026-10-10 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, “Melaño”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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Spellings & scripts●(measured from records)