Meliš
surname · Latin script
Meliš is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Greek Μέλισσα (Mélissa).
- BEBelgium1 in 4.7K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia≈1 in 42K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 55K
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.
- Belgium (measured from records)
- Sources
- 19 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.7K (inferred from the name graph)
2,487 people, 2008
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Melis in US United States.
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)
- GreekΜέλισσαMélissa(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*mélit“honey”(inferred from the name graph)via Μέλισσα
- Proto-Hellenic*meliťťa(inferred from the name graph)via Μέλισσα
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
Borrowed from Greek Μέλισσα (Mélissa).
Sources 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Meliš 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | 2,487 | 1 in 4.7K | 2.5K | — | 2 |
| ES Spain | 711 | 1 in 70K | 711 | — | 1 |
| AR Argentina | 400 | 1 in 114K | 400 | — | 1 |
| US United States | 372 | 1 in 894K | 508 | Melis | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | 152 | 1 in 55K | 152 | — | 2 |
| SK Slovakia | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Meliš | 19 |
2,487 people counted by Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register), 2008. 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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
- Jan Melišb. 1972SKSlovak cinematographer
- Bernard Jozef Melišb. 1984SKSlovak historian
- Matúš Melišb. 1999SKbadminton player
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)
Attested in 4 sources across 2 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 Meliš mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Greek Μέλισσα (Mélissa). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and 4 other sources.
- In which country does Meliš have the most bearers?
- In Belgium, the national register counted about 2.5 thousand people named Meliš, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Meliš most common?
- Meliš is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.7 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Meliš?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 2,487 people named Meliš in 2008, about 1 in 4.7 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/meli%C5%A1The 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, “Meliš”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.