Melnikas

surname · Latin script

Meaning: —žr. Mėlninkas

Melnikas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • LTLithuania≈1 in 30K(inferred from the name graph)
  • LVLatvia≈1 in 23Kas Meļņika
  • UYUruguay1 in 36Kas Melnik

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Melnikas 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)

1,689 named Melnik, 2010

Sources
39 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)

Lithuania, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Meļņika in LV Latvia.

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)

—žr. Mėlninkas

Sources 1

  • Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Melnikas 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 Melnikas is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,689as Melnik1 in 197K1.8KMelnikas39
AR Argentina813as Melnik1 in 56K813——
PL Poland813as Melnik1 in 47K426——
BR Brazil744as Melnik1 in 285K744——
FI Finland102as Melnik1 in 55K102——
UY Uruguay94as Melnik1 in 36K94——
LT Lithuania≈90 est.≈1 in 30K—Melnikas25
LV Latvia≈83 est.≈1 in 23K—Meļņika10

1,689 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling melnik. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)

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

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Melnįkas

15 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Melnikas
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
  • Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

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 Melnikas mean, and where does it come from?
—žr. Mėlninkas Recorded by Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames).
In which country does Melnikas have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Melnik, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Melnikas?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,689 people named Melnik in 2010, about 1 in 197 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, “Melnikas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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