Melana
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 18 countries
/melana/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Melana is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 50K(measured from records)
- LTLithuania≈1 in 140K
- MDMoldova1 in 187K
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 Melana 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 162 (measured from records)
- 1 in 50K (inferred from the name graph)
833 people, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Melana 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 | 833 | 1 in 399K | 830 | Melana | 162 |
| SY Syria | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 225K | — | Melana | 6 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈95 est. | ≈1 in 674K | — | Melana | 9 |
| DE Germany | ≈87 est. | ≈1 in 955K | — | Melana | 22 |
| CA Canada | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 559K | 1 | Melana | 19 |
| GE Georgia | 68as მელანა | 1 in 59K | 68 | Melana | 2 |
| LT Lithuania | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 145K | listed | — | 1 |
| MD Moldova | 18 | 1 in 187K | 18 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 15 | 1 in 50K | 15 | Melana | 1 |
833 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); e-services.md — living population register; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)Melana 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 sqj-pro, black
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.
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)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Melana?
- In Spanish /melana/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Melana a male or female name?
- Melana is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Melana have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 833 people named Melana, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled melana.
- Where is Melana most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Melana is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 50 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Melana?
- In the United States, the national register counted 833 people named Melana in 2020, about 1 in 399 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Melana?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/melanaThe 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, “Melana”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.