Melina
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Latin origin; means “sweet as honey.” Used for women
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Melina is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- ARArgentina≈1 in 1.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay≈1 in 1.7K
- BRBrazil1 in 12K
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 Melina 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.
- Argentina (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 294 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈38,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Argentina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Μελίνα in FR France.
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)
Latin origin; means “sweet as honey.” Used for women.
Sources 1
- Tên Họ Người Việt Nam
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
How Melina is read(measured from records)
Melina is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish61%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Melina in Spanish.
- French13%
Origine grecque, « miel ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
- English11%
Latin origin; means “sweet as honey.” Used for women.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Melina 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #280 | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 155 | Melina | 129 |
| BR Brazil | — | 17,927 | 1 in 12K | 18K | Melina | 130 |
| US United States | — | 17,597 | 1 in 19K | 18K | Melina | 294 |
| FR France | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | 28K | Μελίνα | 4 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | — | Melina | 15 |
| SE Sweden | — | 4,322 | 1 in 2.4K | 4.3K | Melina | 26 |
| FI Finland | — | 2,298 | 1 in 2.4K | 2.5K | Melina | 18 |
| UY Uruguay | #130 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Melina | 38 |
| CY Cyprus | #773 | 690as Μελινα | 1 in 1.8K | 690 | Melina | 38 |
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: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); 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); CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census). 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)
Melina is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Melina är dels en fornfransk form av Ameline, dels en italiensk smekform till Carmelina eller en utvidgning av Carmela. En känd namnbärare var den grekiska skådespelerskan och politikern Melina (egentligen Maria Amalia) Mercouri (1920–94). Namnet har blivit populärt de senaste årtiondena. I den finlandssvenska almanackan 5 maj.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In German, ) Meline: weibl. Vom., altfran zösische Kurzform von Ameline, einer Kose form von germanischen Namen, die mit dem
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Italian, a tactic, in the final minutes of a game, in which the winning side maintains possession of the ball with a series of short passes
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, den, hideout (place where illegal wares are stored and sold)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Caron Wheelerb. 1963GBnot in their usual nameEnglish singer
- Melina Marchettab. 1965AUAustralian teen writer
- Melina Kanakaredesb. 1967USAmerican actress
- Melina Aslanidoub. 1974GRGreek singer
- Melina Perezb. 1979USAmerican professional wrestler
- Melina Matsoukasb. 1981USAmerican music video, film, commercial and television director
- Melina Matthewsb. 1986ESSpanish actress
- Bianca Ingrossob. 1994SEnot in their usual nameSwedish singer and influencer
- Melina AlvesBRactress
- Melina Benett Paukkonenactress
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 108 sources across 57 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 18K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 18K | #1,141 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 18K | #1,728 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 7.3K | #2,639 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 6.9K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 4.3K | #674 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 3.7K | #516 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 2.8K | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 2.5K | #484 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 2.3K | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 434 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 155 | #599 |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- In which country does Melina have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 38 thousand people named Melina in Argentina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled melina.
- What does the name Melina mean, and where does it come from?
- Latin origin; means “sweet as honey.” Used for women. Recorded by Tên Họ Người Việt Nam.
- What are other forms of the name Melina?
- In the etymology graph, Melissa, Melanie and Melinda are forms of the same name in other languages; Mindy is a recorded short or pet form; it is recorded as a short form of Mel and Missy.
- Is Melina a male or female name?
- Melina 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.
- How common is the name Melina?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 17,927 people named Melina in 2022, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
- How common is Melina compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Melina is the 280th most common given name of 119,825 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/melinaThe 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, “Melina” — the 280th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.