Melï
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Melï is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Cameroon than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Patronymic from a reduced form of the personal name Carmelo.
- ARArgentina1 in 36K(measured from records)
- CMCameroon≈1 in 1.7K
- ALAlbania≈1 in 8.8K
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.
- Cameroon (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 116 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Cameroon, est.
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 AR Argentina, US United States, CH Switzerland and 2 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)
Melï 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CM Cameroon | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Meli | 9 |
| IT Italy | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 2 | Meli | 34 |
| US United States | 1,910 | 1 in 174K | 1.9K | Meli | 116 |
| IN India | 1,720 | 1 in 771K | 1.7K | — | 3 |
| AR Argentina | 1,256 | 1 in 36K | 1.3K | Meli | 59 |
| CH Switzerland | 735 | 1 in 11K | 735 | Meli | 9 |
| AL Albania | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 8.8K | 80 | — | — |
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 — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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 Melï 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.
- Is Melï a male or female name?
- Melï 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.
- In which country does Melï have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Melï in Cameroon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled meli.
- How common is the name Melï?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,910 people named Melï in 2010, about 1 in 174 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Melï?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mel%C3%AFThe 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, “Melï”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.