Melija
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Sievietes vārds
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/melija/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Melija is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- LVLatvia1 in 941K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 8.2Kas Melia
- FIFinland1 in 67Kas Melia
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Melija itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 11 (measured from records)
- 1 in 941K (inferred from the name graph)
4,704 named Melia, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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(measured from records)
Sievietes vārds
Sources 1
- Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Melija 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 | 4,704as Melia | 1 in 71K | 4.7K | Melija | 11 |
| DK Denmark | 716as Melia | 1 in 8.2K | 716 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 308as Melia | 1 in 687K | 338 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 132as Melia | 1 in 77K | 132 | — | 2 |
| FI Finland | 83as Melia | 1 in 67K | 111 | — | — |
| AL Albania | 21as Melia | 1 in 146K | 21 | — | — |
| LV Latvia | 2 | 1 in 941K | 2 | — | — |
4,704 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling melia. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 2 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 2 | #21,548 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Melija?
- A machine transcription gives /melija/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- Is Melija a male or female name?
- Melija 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.
- What does the name Melija mean?
- Recorded meaning: Sievietes vārds
- In which country does Melija have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.7 thousand people named Melia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Melija most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Melija is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 941 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Melija?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 2 people named Melija, about 1 in 941 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Melija?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/melijaThe 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, “Melija”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.