Melica
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries
/mɛɫɪkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Melica is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 39K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 196K
- SESweden1 in 217K
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)
- Record sources
- 92 (measured from records)
- 1 in 39K (inferred from the name graph)
1,079 people, 2022
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
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.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Melica 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 | 1,079 | 1 in 196K | 1.1K | Melica | 17 |
| US United States | 149 | 1 in 2.2M | 142 | Melica | 92 |
| SE Sweden | 47 | 1 in 217K | 47 | — | 1 |
| PH Philippines | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 2.7M | — | Melica | 6 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Melica | 6 |
| GY Guyana | 19 | 1 in 39K | 19 | Melica | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 15 | 1 in 391K | 15 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | 14 | 1 in 398K | 45 | — | 1 |
1,079 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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 — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)Melica 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 Italian, ellipsis of poesia melica (“melic poetry”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Pumpursmilgas
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Lirika
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 79 | #75,534 |
Reference works 3
- 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
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Melica?
- A machine transcription gives /mɛɫɪkə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Melica a male or female name?
- Melica is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Brazil (IBGE, 2022) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Melica have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Melica, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled melica.
- Where is Melica most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Melica is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 39 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Melica?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,079 people named Melica in 2022, about 1 in 196 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Melica?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/melicaThe 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, “Melica”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.