Melega
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/məʎiɡə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Melega is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 288K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 501K
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 738K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 42 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 288K (inferred from the name graph)
423 people
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Melega 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 423 | 1 in 501K | 423 | Melega | 42 |
| IT Italy | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 288K | listed | Melega | 9 |
| US United States | 108 | 1 in 3.1M | 118 | Melega | 20 |
| AR Argentina | 28 | 1 in 1.6M | 28 | Melega | 20 |
| VE Venezuela | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Melega | 10 |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 738K | — | Melega | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | 9 | 1 in 934K | 9 | — | 2 |
423 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; the xinhua-italian-manual register; 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)
Melega 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 Italian, alternative form of meliga (“sorghum”)
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)
- Gianluigi Melegab. 1935ITItalian journalist, writer and politician
- Tibor Melegab. 1936HUHungarian economist, politician (born: 1936)
- Michele Melegab. 1961ITItalian actor
- Marco Melegab. 1972ITItalian entrepreneur and record producer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 423 | #19,769 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 118 | #132,259 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 108 | #151,532 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 106 | #152,339 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 28 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 9 | #65,843 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Melega?
- A machine transcription gives /məʎiɡə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Melega have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 423 people named Melega, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled melega.
- How common is the name Melega?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 423 people named Melega, about 1 in 501 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Melega?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/melegaThe 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, “Melega”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.