Meller
surname · Latin script
Meaning: occupational name for a miller or flour merchant, from an agent derivative of German Mehl ‘flour’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈmɛɫɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Meller is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 39K(inferred from the name graph)
- ILIsrael1 in 7.3Kas מלר
- USUnited States1 in 64Kas Mahler
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. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 249 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
7,921 named Möller
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
occupational name for a miller or flour merchant, from an agent derivative of German Mehl ‘flour’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(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 | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 39K | 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)
- Edith Mellerb. 1897HUHungarian actress (1897–1953)
- Ivana Tomljenović-Mellerb. 1906HRgraphic designer and art teacher
- Amos Mellerb. 1938ILIsraeli composer and conductor (1938–2007)
- Helen Elizabeth Mellerb. 1941GBb. 9/30/41
- Stefan Mellerb. 1942PLPolish diplomat (1942-2008)
- Leo Mellerb. 1942FIFinnish Lutheran preacher
- Edna Mittwoch-Mellerb. 1946ILIsraeli poet, translator, literary editor
- Isaac Mellerb. 1948ILIsraeli writer and oncological and orthopedic surgeon
- Marcin Mellerb. 1968PLjournalist
- Andrzej Mellerb. 1976PLPolish journalist
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)
Attested in 35 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.7K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.7K | #1,644 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.7K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.7K | #1,597 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.6K | #16,955 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.5K | #6,413 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.3K | #19,657 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #22,194 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 230 | #6,671 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 92 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 87 | #8,073 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 51 | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 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?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmɛɫɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Meller have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 7.9 thousand people named Möller, more than in any other country we hold.
- 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” — the 771st most common surname in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.