Across the world, Melan (Melan 
) is quite a common epicene given name. The first name Melan is habitual in Sri Lanka, where it is quite a rare masculine name, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where it is quite a rare dominantly masculine, but infrequently girly name, and Qatar, where it is quite a rare male name. Measured by absolute frequency, it most frequently occurs in Indonesia, India, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Likewise, Melan is the last name as well as the forename.