Meliton

given name · Latin script

Meaning: gr. MaiTwv, cf. p.eXi.sacc melisa" 1

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

/meliton/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Meliton is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PEPeru≈1 in 8.9K(inferred from the name graph)
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 19K
  • ARArgentina≈1 in 39K

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. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈5,900 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
120 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 8.9K (inferred from the name graph)

Peru, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MelitonLatin(measured from records)
მელიტონGeorgian(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)

recorded in Romanian

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.

Sources 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.

Where Meliton is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines—≈5,900 est.≈1 in 19K—Meliton29
PE Peru—≈3,600 est.≈1 in 8.9K—Meliton39
US United States—1,4251 in 233K1.4KMeliton120
AR Argentina—≈1,200 est.≈1 in 39K44Meliton32
BO Bolivia—≈440 est.≈1 in 27K—Meliton13
GE Georgia—125as მელიტონ1 in 32K125Meliton6
PA Panama—≈110 est.≈1 in 34K3—9
UY Uruguay#578671 in 51K131Meliton6

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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Meliton is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Melitón, Melitòn

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Philippines, United States, Peru

    Also written Melitón

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Méliton, Melitón

  • Indonesian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Indonesia, Peru, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Melitón, Mëlïtôn

  • Italian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Italy

    Also written Melitón

  • Russian given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Zimbabwe, Ukraine, United States

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Мелитон, Мелітон, Melitón

40 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)

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)

0500100015002000Melito of Sardis, b. 100Meliton Balanchivadze, b. 1862Melitón Simois, b. 1884Meliton Saneblidze, b. 1905Meliton Kantaria, b. 1920Meliton Santos, b. 1928

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)

InformalHola Meliton,Hi Meliton, (English)

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)

Attested in 31 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Meliton
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.4K#9,663
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—67—
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—67—
AR Argentinadatos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015)195321—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror)195320—
AR Argentinadatos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015)194920—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror)194920—
AR Argentinadatos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015)194619—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror)194619—
AR Argentinadatos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015)194716—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror)194716—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)193216—

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Meliton?
A machine transcription gives /meliton/ (IPA) for Spanish.
Is Meliton a male or female name?
Meliton is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Meliton mean?
Recorded meaning: gr. MaiTwv, cf. p.eXi.sacc melisa" 1.
In which country does Meliton have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 5.9 thousand people named Meliton in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled meliton.
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 Uruguay, Meliton is the 578th most common given name of 12,212 given names 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, “Meliton” — the 578th most common given name in Uruguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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