Meliton
given name · Latin script
Meaning: gr. MaiTwv, cf. p.eXi.sacc melisa" 1
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/meliton/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Meliton is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country.
- MXMexico≈1 in 7.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 9.5K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 19K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Meliton itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 120 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈18,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Mexico, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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
(measured from records)gr. MaiTwv, cf. p.eXi.sacc melisa" 1. Melidon. N., act. 2. Milidon Huetu, ard. act. (Var 20). Melulia v. Mil I 13. Menedie gf Meledie v. Benedict I 1. Menesti, Menca v. P a r m e n a 6. Mera v. M iron II 3. Mercore v. Mercurie 3.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Where in the world
(measured from records)Meliton 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #775 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | 116 | Meliton | 84 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Meliton | 29 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 9.5K | — | Meliton | 39 |
| US United States | — | 1,425 | 1 in 233K | 1.4K | Meliton | 120 |
| AR Argentina | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 40K | 44 | Meliton | 32 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Meliton | 13 |
| PA Panama | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 27K | 3 | — | 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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election. 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)Meliton 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 Russian, "honeyed."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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)- Melito of Sardisb. 100TRnot in their usual nameAncient Roman Eunuch and saint
- Meliton Balanchivadzeb. 1862GEGeorgian musician (1862-1937)
- Meliton Kantariab. 1920GEHero of the Soviet Union (1920-1993)
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)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)31 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Meliton?
- In Spanish /meliton/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Meliton a male or female name?
- Meliton is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Spain (INE) and Mexico (RENAPO).
- What does the name Meliton mean?
- Recorded meaning: gr. MaiTwv, cf. p.eXi.sacc melisa" 1.
- Which countries have the most people named Meliton?
- Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Meliton in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled meliton. After it come Philippines, Peru, United States and Argentina; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Meliton?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,425 people named Meliton in 2020, about 1 in 233 thousand residents.
- How common is Meliton compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Meliton is the 775th most common given name of 193,485 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/melitonThe 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, “Meliton” — the 775th most common given name in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.