Melillan

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Melillan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • CLChile≈1 in 37K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ARArgentina1 in 59K
  • UYUruguay≈1 in 2.4M

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.

Argentina (measured from records)

767 people

Sources
28 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 37K (inferred from the name graph)

Chile, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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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)

Melillan 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.

Where Melillan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina—7671 in 59K767Melillan28
CL Chile#832≈490 est.≈1 in 37K1Melillan28
BR Brazil—≈36 est.≈1 in 5.9M—Melillan1
US United States—≈3 est.≈1 in 95MlistedMelillan12
ES Spain—≈2 est.≈1 in 30M—Melillan2
UY Uruguay—≈1 est.≈1 in 2.4M—Melillan2

767 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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)

Melillan is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain

    Also written Melillán

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Melillán

7 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Melillan 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 English, From, or pertaining to, Melilla.

    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 3 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Melillan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—767—
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Melillan have the most bearers?
In Argentina, the national register counted about 767 people named Melillan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled melillan.
How common is the name Melillan?
In Argentina, the national register counted 767 people named Melillan, about 1 in 59 thousand residents.
How common is Melillan compared with other names?
In Chile, Melillan is the 832nd most common surname of 94,777 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Melillan” — the 832nd most common surname in Chile. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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