Meliza
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Meliza is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 14K
- PEPeru≈1 in 15K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 161 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
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)
Meliza 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈8,800 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Meliza | 54 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Meliza | 41 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Meliza | 57 |
| US United States | — | 1,302 | 1 in 255K | 1.3K | Meliza | 161 |
| PY Paraguay | #776 | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Meliza | 11 |
| HN Honduras | #637 | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Meliza | 10 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 102 | 1 in 33K | 102 | — | 13 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Meliza 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 Basque, ( Alth Bot → Lh ). "Mélisse" Alth Bot 13.
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)
- Meliza Haradinaj-Stubllab. 1984XKKosovan politician
- Meliza BañalesUSAmerican writer
- Meliza Lindsay RojasPEPeruvian engineer
- Cindy Meliza HurtadoPEPeruvian biologist
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 42 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.3K | #10,303 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 102 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 95 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1997 | 49 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1998 | 39 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1996 | 39 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 9 | #10,303 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 6 | — |
| UY Uruguay | Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012) | 2012 | 1 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- Is Meliza a male or female name?
- Meliza is a female 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.
- In which country does Meliza have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.8 thousand people named Meliza in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled meliza.
- How common is the name Meliza?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,302 people named Meliza in 2020, about 1 in 255 thousand residents.
- How common is Meliza compared with other names?
- In Honduras, Meliza is the 637th most common given name of 23,588 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/melizaThe 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, “Meliza” — the 637th most common given name in Honduras. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.