Meleš

surname · Latin script

Meleš is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NONorway1 in 61K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 82K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 91K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

374 people

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
9 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 61K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MelešLatin(measured from records)
МелесCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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.

Sources 1

  • Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Meleš 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 Meleš is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil3741 in 566K374——
US United States1721 in 1.9M275—1
SE Sweden1241 in 82K124——
CH Switzerland921 in 91K92——
NO Norway901 in 61K90—1
HR Croatia361 in 117K36Meleš9
DK Denmark201 in 293K20——

374 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)

Meleš is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Slovak surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia

    Also written Meles

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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Meleš is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Czech, second-person singular present of mlít

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Meleš under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Meleš have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 374 people named Meleš, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Meleš most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Meleš is densest in Norway — about 1 in 61 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Meleš?
In Brazil, the national register counted 374 people named Meleš, about 1 in 566 thousand residents.

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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, “Meleš”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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