Meland
surname · Latin script
Meaning: example surname; variants Melan/Melang from loss of -d
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Meland is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 1.6K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 226K
- SESweden1 in 255K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Sources
- 34 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
3,426 people
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
example surname; variants Melan/Melang from loss of -d
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Where in the world(measured from records)
Meland 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | 3,426 | 1 in 1.6K | 3.4K | Meland | 34 |
| US United States | 725 | 1 in 459K | 782 | Meland | 20 |
| SE Sweden | 40 | 1 in 255K | 40 | Meland | 6 |
| DK Denmark | 26 | 1 in 226K | 26 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | 1 |
3,426 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Meland 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 Norwegian, habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads in southwestern Norway so named from Old Norse Medalland ‘the mid land’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Halldor Melandb. 1884NONorwegian musician
- Kaare Melandb. 1915NONorwegian politician (1915-2002)
- Gunnar Melandb. 1947NONorwegian curler
- Eilef A. Melandb. 1947NONorwegian politician
- Eivind Melandb. 1950NONorwegian researcher
- Ingmar Melandb. 1966NONorwegian philosopher
- Per Melandb. 1972NONorwegian businessman
- Astrid Melandb. 1975NONorwegian journalist
- Lars Øyvind Melandb. 1977NONorwegian musician
- Sandra Melandb. 1995NONorwegian musician (born 1995)
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 15 sources across 7 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- What does the name Meland mean, and where does it come from?
- example surname; variants Melan/Melang from loss of -d Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- In which country does Meland have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 3.4 thousand people named Meland, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled meland.
- Where is Meland most common?
- Meland is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.6 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Meland?
- In Norway, the national register counted 3,426 people named Meland, about 1 in 1.6 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/melandThe 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, “Meland”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.