Mellin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from any of various places so called (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/mellin/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated · uncertain
Mellin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 1,020 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- FIFinland1 in 6.9K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 21K
- DKDenmark1 in 136K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 54 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.9K (inferred from the name graph)
1,020 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Mellin
- Spanish:/mellin/(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)from any of various places so called.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where the surname Mellin is found
(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.
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 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)- Charles Mellinb. 1597FRFrench painter (1597-1649)
- Ludwig August Mellinb. 1754EEBaltic German politician and cartographer (1754-1835)
- Hjalmar Mellinb. 1854FIFinnish mathematician (1854-1933)
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)28 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
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?
- In Spanish /mellin/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Mellin?
- 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. After it come Finland, Sweden, Brazil and Denmark; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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.
What do you want to know about Mellin?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mellinThe 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, “Mellin” — ranked 22949th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.