Melese

org · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Melese is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Ethiopia.

rarermore common
  • ETEthiopia

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Ethiopia (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
71 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

መለሰEthiopic(measured from records)
MalasaLatin(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled መለሰ in ET Ethiopia.

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.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Melese counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Melese is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ET Ethiopia——መለሰ31
US United States—251—71
NO Norway—28—4
SE Sweden—18—9
PL Poland—9——

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 — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Melese is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Mélèse

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Mêlêsê, Mélèse

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Mélèse, Mélese

36 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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 13 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Melese
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020251#81,311
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010136#126,018
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—28#35,894
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—10#38,883
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

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

In which country does Melese have the most bearers?
Melese is most frequently recorded in Ethiopia, where it is most often spelled መለሰ.

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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, “Melese”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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