Melic
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Of or pertaining to Greek lyric verse
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Melic is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 60K(measured from records)
- ATAustria≈1 in 415K
- DKDenmark1 in 534K
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.
- Croatia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 35 (measured from records)
- 1 in 60K (inferred from the name graph)
71 people, 2021
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Of or pertaining to Greek lyric verse.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Melic 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | 71 | 1 in 60K | 71 | — | — |
| PH Philippines | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Melic | 6 |
| DE Germany | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 2.6M | — | Melic | 19 |
| US United States | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 12M | — | Melic | 35 |
| IN India | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 51M | — | Melic | 1 |
| AT Austria | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 415K | — | Melic | 11 |
| DK Denmark | 11 | 1 in 534K | 11 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 9 | 1 in 1.1M | 9 | — | 2 |
71 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Melic is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Romanian, < cf. arab metik rege", n. adus de armeni $i subst. melic. 1.-act. ; esti s ; cu. as. regr. Mille lesti s. (Arh) ; -escu (Sd XVIII). 2. Meleca prof., 1890 ; Meleacd, D-tru (Puc) ; cf. si subst. meleaptcd, varianta la neleapca (DLR) ; cf. Melecan, act.
as a nameDictionar Onomastic Rominesc
In Russian, var of Melits.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Catalan, navel
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 11 | #38,001 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 9 | #42,951 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Melic mean, and where does it come from?
- Of or pertaining to Greek lyric verse. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Melic have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 71 people named Melic, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Melic most common?
- Melic is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 60 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Melic?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 71 people named Melic in 2021, about 1 in 60 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/melicThe 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, “Melic”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.