Mellin

surname · Latin script

Meaning: from any of various places so called

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

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

Mellin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 6.9K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 21K
  • DKDenmark1 in 136K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

1,020 people, 2010

Sources
54 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 6.9K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

from any of various places so called.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mellin 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 Mellin is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,0201 in 326K1.1KMellin54
FI Finland8111 in 6.9K811Mellin4
SE Sweden4951 in 21K495Mellin5
BR Brazil1081 in 2M108Mellin32
DK Denmark431 in 136K43——
PL Poland271 in 1.4M17——

1,020 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)

Mellin is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Finnish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Sweden, United States

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Méllin

37 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)

Mellin is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, variant of Melville.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In Irish, A variant of Malinn

    as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland

  • In Breton, mêler

    as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)

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)

150016001700180019002000Charles Mellin, b. 1597Berendt Mellin, b. 1608Jürgen Mellin, b. 1633Berend Johan von Mellin, b. 1659Ludwig August Mellin, b. 1754Gustaf Henrik Mellin, b. 1803Hjalmar Mellin, b. 1854Max Mellin, b. 1904Andrzej Mellin, b. 1950Lena Mellin, b. 1954

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)

FormalDear Mellin,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 28 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Mellin
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.1K#23,309
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001K#22,949
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101K#24,517
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—811#2,260
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—495#1,903
FI FinlandDVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)—344—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—108#59,814
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—43#12,069
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202617—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—17#99,193
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202610—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—10#136,159

Reference works 7

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 Mellin mean, and where does it come from?
from any of various places so called. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Mellin?
A machine transcription gives /ˈmɛɫɪn/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Mellin have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Mellin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mellin.
Where is Mellin most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mellin is densest in Finland — about 1 in 6.9 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Mellin?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,020 people named Mellin in 2010, about 1 in 326 thousand residents.

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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, “Mellin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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