Melançon
surname · Latin script
Melançon is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From French Melançon.
- IEIreland≈1 in 29Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 37K
- JMJamaica≈1 in 45Kfew records
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 328 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)
6,496 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Melancon in US United States, DZ Algeria, CA Canada and 5 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)From French Melançon.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Melançon 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 6,496 | 1 in 51K | 6.5K | Melancon | 328 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 122K | — | Melancon | 1 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Melancon | 84 |
| DZ Algeria | #106 | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 80K | — | Melancon | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 236K | — | Melancon | 24 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Melancon | 2 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Melancon | 2 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈63 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Melancon | 1 |
6,496 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Joseph Melançonb. 1877CACanadian writer
- Ovila Melançonb. 1910CACanadian priest and theologian (1910-2011)
- Joseph Melançonb. 1927CAprofessor of literature at Laval University
- André Melançonb. 1942CACanadian actor (1942–2016)
- Robert Melançonb. 1947CACanadian translator, poet and professor
- Charlotte Melançonb. 1947CACanadian poet, translator and literary scholar
- Benoît Melançonb. 1958CACanadian professor and writer
- Isabelle Melançonb. 1974CACanadian politician
- Jérôme Melançonb. 1981CACanadian Author
- Joliane Melançonb. 1986CACanadian judoka
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Melançon mean, and where does it come from?
- From French Melançon. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Melançon have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 6.5 thousand people named Melançon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled melancon.
- How common is the name Melançon?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,496 people named Melançon in 2010, about 1 in 51 thousand residents.
- How common is Melançon compared with other names?
- In Algeria, Melançon is the 106th most common surname of 89,473 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/melan%C3%A7onThe 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, “Melançon” — the 106th most common surname in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.