Meller
surname · Latin script
Meaning: occupational name for a miller or flour merchant, from an agent derivative of German Mehl ‘flour’ (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/mɛlɛɾ/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Meller is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. Meller is also written מלר in Hebrew.
- PLPoland1 in 11K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 36K
- ATAustria≈1 in 56Kfew records
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 Meller 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.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 249 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
7,921 named Möller
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meller in other scripts: Hebrew
(measured from records)Locally spelled מלר in IL Israel, PL Poland.
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.
How to pronounce Meller
- Portuguese:/mɛlɛɾ/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Spanish:/melleɾ/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Polish:/mɛlɛr/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)occupational name for a miller or flour merchant, from an agent derivative of German Mehl ‘flour’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Meller is found
(measured from records)Meller 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | — | 7,921as Möller | 1 in 1.3K | 7.9K | Meller | 14 |
| US United States | — | 5,222as Mahler | 1 in 64K | 5.2K | Meller | 249 |
| PL Poland | — | 3,437 | 1 in 11K | 1.7K | מלר | 2 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 36K | listed | Meller | 111 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,964as Moller | 1 in 108K | 2K | — | 3 |
| IL Israel | #771 | 1,181as מלר | 1 in 7.3K | 1.2K | מלר | 33 |
| FI Finland | — | 1,122as Möller | 1 in 5K | 1.1K | Meller | 7 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 805as Mahler | 1 in 10K | 805 | Meller | 9 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 526as Moller | 1 in 6.4K | 526 | — | 1 |
7,921 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population), counting the spelling möller. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos 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)Meller is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Americanized form of German Mdller (see Moeller).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, A melodrama.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, habitante de Melle/Mello; sufixo truncado -er
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In English, ‘Miller’; first attested Roger le Meller 1319 Crowland (C), 1327 SRSF
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
habitational name for someone from Melle.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)- Ivana Tomljenović-Mellerb. 1906HRgraphic designer and art teacher
- Stefan Mellerb. 1942PLPolish diplomat (1942-2008)
- Marcin Mellerb. 1968PLjournalist
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)Evidence
(measured from records)35 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Meller mean, and where does it come from?
- occupational name for a miller or flour merchant, from an agent derivative of German Mehl ‘flour’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Meller?
- It depends on the language: in Portuguese /mɛlɛɾ/; in Spanish /melleɾ/; in Polish /mɛlɛr/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Meller?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 7.9 thousand people named Möller, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Poland, Germany and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Meller most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Meller is densest in Poland — about 1 in 11 thousand people — even though Sweden holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Meller?
- In Poland, the national register counted 3,437 people named Meller in 2026, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Meller compared with other names?
- In Israel, Meller is the 771st most common surname of 325,634 surnames 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/mellerThe 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, “Meller” — ranked 110th in Sweden (Skatteverket). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.