Melanija
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Melanija is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- LVLatvia1 in 1.2K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 7.8K
- SISlovenia1 in 11K
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 Melanija itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 38 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
9,084 named Melania, 2026
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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:
Locally spelled Melania in ES Spain.
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.
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Melanija 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | — | 9,084as Melania | 1 in 4.2K | 9.1K | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | — | 4,652as Melania | 1 in 11K | 4.7K | Melania | 5 |
| US United States | — | 4,437as Melania | 1 in 75K | 4.4K | Melanija | 32 |
| BR Brazil | — | 2,507as Melania | 1 in 84K | 2.9K | — | — |
| MD Moldova | — | 1,627as Melania | 1 in 2.1K | 1.6K | — | 1 |
| LV Latvia | — | 1,546 | 1 in 1.2K | 1.6K | Melanija | 10 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 1,231as Melania | 1 in 4.1K | 1.2K | — | — |
| MK North Macedonia | #529 | 704as Меланија | 1 in 3K | 704 | Melanija | 7 |
9,084 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); e-services.md — living population register; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; State Statistical Office — living population names. 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Melanija 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 Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Olha-Melaniia Kulchytskab. 1873UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian artist
- Melaniya Vytvytskab. 1887USnot in their usual namewife of the first Ukrainian president (1887-1963)
- Melaniia Kravtsivb. 1897CAnot in their usual namewriter (1897-1961)
- Melanija Mitrovićb. 1959RSSerbian mathematician
- Melanija Larisa Fabčičb. 1969SISlovenian linguist
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).
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)32 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Melanija?
- In the etymology graph, Melanie, Melinda and Melina are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Melanija a male or female name?
- Melanija is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Slovenia (SURS, 2025).
- In which country does Melanija have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 9.1 thousand people named Melania, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Melanija most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Melanija is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 1.2 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Melanija?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 1,546 people named Melanija, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Melanija compared with other names?
- In North Macedonia, Melanija is the 529th most common given name of 2,588 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Melanija?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/melanijaThe 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, “Melanija” — the 529th most common given name in North Macedonia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.