Melì
surname · Latin script
Melì is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Patronymic from a reduced form of the personal name Carmelo.
- ITItaly≈1 in 12M(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 11K
- ARArgentina1 in 36K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 115 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
1,910 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Meli in IT Italy, US United States, CH Switzerland and 1 more.
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)
Patronymic from a reduced form of the personal name Carmelo.
Sources 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Nordic Names
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Melì 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 | — | 1,910 | 1 in 174K | 1.9K | Meli | 96 |
| IN India | — | 1,720 | 1 in 771K | 1.7K | — | 4 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,256 | 1 in 36K | 1.3K | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 735 | 1 in 11K | 735 | Meli | 12 |
| NO Norway | — | 130 | 1 in 42K | 130 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | — | 97 | 1 in 121K | 97 | Meli | 8 |
| IT Italy | #894 | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 12M | 2 | Meli | 115 |
1,910 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Melì mean, and where does it come from?
- Patronymic from a reduced form of the personal name Carmelo. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and 3 other sources.
- In which country does Melì have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Melì, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled meli.
- Where is Melì most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Melì is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 11 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Melì?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,910 people named Melì in 2010, about 1 in 174 thousand residents.
- How common is Melì compared with other names?
- In Italy, Melì is the 894th most common surname of 502,013 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mel%C3%ACThe 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, “Melì” — the 894th most common surname in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.