Mellas
surname · Latin script
Meaning: occupational name for a seller of honey, from meli ‘honey’ -i- the agent noun suffix -as
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mɛɫəz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mellas is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- MAMorocco
- AUAustralia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
occupational name for a seller of honey, from meli ‘honey’ -i- the agent noun suffix -as.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Mellas is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
unexplained. Perhaps a variant spelling of Mallis.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Latin, second-person singular present active indicative of mellō
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 331 | #60,790 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 329 | #65,168 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 310 | #60,706 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 71 | #35,165 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 71 | #34,849 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 46 | #24,506 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 26 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 23 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 18 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 17 | — |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 14 | #56,997 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 8 | #80,986 |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Mellas mean, and where does it come from?
- occupational name for a seller of honey, from meli ‘honey’ -i- the agent noun suffix -as. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Mellas?
- A machine transcription gives /mɛɫəz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Mellas have the most bearers?
- Mellas is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mellas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.